lithotomy

[ li-thot-uh-mee ]

noun

, plural li·thot·o·mies.

1. surgery to remove one or more stones from an organ or duct.

lithotomy

/ ˌlɪθəˈtɒmɪk; lɪˈθɒtəmɪ /

noun

1. the surgical removal of a calculus, esp one in the urinary bladder

Derived Forms

• lithotomic, adjective
• liˈthotomist, noun

Other Words From

• lith·o·tom·ic [lith-, uh, -, tom, -ik], litho·tomi·cal adjective
• li·thoto·mist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of lithotomy¹

1715–25; < Late Latin lithotomia < Greek lithotomía. See litho-, -tomy

Word History and Origins

Origin of lithotomy¹

C18: via Late Latin from Greek, from litho- + -tomy

Example Sentences

The traditional lithotomy position forces Mom to work against gravity.

From New York Times

Women still aren’t equal, and if we buy into that old feminism, now we’ve also divorced ourselves from something primal and arguably vital, and signed ourselves up for some pretty extreme new forms of violence in the process—forceps, shaving, enemas, episiotomy, the lithotomy position, induction, surgery.

From Slate

In the bladder it may occur when the urine is alkaline, in chronic cystitis, after lithotomy, urethotomy, the operation for vesico-vaginal fistula, and in ectopia vesic�.

From Project Gutenberg

And that is better still: for garrulous patients are ill to cure, especially in fever: I say then that Eristratus gave us the cerebral nerves and the milk vessels; nay more, he was the inventor of lithotomy, whatever you may say.

From Project Gutenberg

Lithotomy, lith-ot′o-mi, n. cutting for stone in the bladder.—n.

From Project Gutenberg