Lithotomy

Word LITHOTOMY
Character 9
Hyphenation li thot o my
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Lithotomy"

What do we mean by lithotomy?

Surgical removal of a stone or stones from the urinary tract. noun

The operation, art, or practice of cutting for stone in the bladder. noun

The operation, art, or practice of cutting for stone in the bladder. noun

A surgical method for removal of calculi, (bolily stones formed inside certain hollow organs) such kidney stones and gallstones. noun

Surgical removal of a stone (calculus) noun

A surgical method for removal of calculi, such as kidney stones and gallstones.

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The word "lithotomy" in example sentences

Percutaneous Nephrostolithotomy (PCNL) Percutaneous (i.e., through the skin) removal of kidney stones (lithotomy) is accomplished by the surgeon threading various catheters over the guidewires into the kidney and manipulates surgical instruments through the catheters to fragment and remove kidney stones. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I wonder, would Iva's condition improve if you performed s lithotomy on him or her? ❋ Angry Professor (2008)

The lithotomy position with the legs in stirrups was experienced as less comfortable and more painful and restricted in movement. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Routine use of lithotomy position with or without stirrups during labour (4.6). ❋ Unknown (1996)

The delivery room is usually equipped with large bright lamps, instruments and a delivery bed fitted lithotomy poles and stirrups or metal gutters. ❋ Unknown (1996)

(Figure 108) · Place the patient in lithotomy, position the sterile drapes, clean the perineum and vagina with polyvidone iodine (see table page 7), give general anesthesia. ❋ Unknown (1989)

· Patient in lithotomy position, general anesthetic, clean the vagina with antiseptic, and wear sterile gloves. ❋ Unknown (1989)

There will always be some new sophisticated medical equipment such as the one for extracorporeal lithotomy, or the accelerator we have acquired that will be set up at the ❋ Unknown (1988)

The incision in the neck of the bladder in lithotomy must necessarily be extensive, to admit of the extraction of a stone of this size. ❋ Joseph Maclise (N/A)

Not less than fifty chapters are devoted to a comparatively full discussion of wounds, fractures and dislocations, lithotomy, herniotomy, fistulae and the various diseases on the border line between medicine and surgery. ❋ Henry Ebenezer Handerson (N/A)

In performing lithotomy, these calculi would not be within reach of the forceps. ❋ Joseph Maclise (N/A)

In such a state of the parts it would be impossible to pass a catheter into the bladder for the relief of a retention of urine, or to introduce a staff as a guide to the knife in lithotomy. ❋ Joseph Maclise (N/A)

Rather curiously and suggestively no mention is made in this immediate connection of the technique of lithotomy. ❋ Henry Ebenezer Handerson (N/A)

Fig. 1, Plate 54, represents the normal relations of the more important parts concerned in lithotomy as performed at the perinaeal region. ❋ Joseph Maclise (N/A)

This description of the diagnosis of stone and of the operation of lithotomy is copied almost literally from Roger of Parma. ❋ Henry Ebenezer Handerson (N/A)

In Mr. Quain's work, ( "Anatomy of the Arteries,") a case is represented in which the artery of the bulb arose from the pudic as far back as the tuber ischii, and crossed the line of incision made in the lateral operation of lithotomy. ❋ Joseph Maclise (N/A)

In the operation of lithotomy he recommended that the blade of the knife should be guarded by a tube. ❋ James Sands Elliott (N/A)

He describes lithotomy, and operations upon the eye, as practised at ❋ James Sands Elliott (N/A)

The left transverse muscle and artery are always divided in the lateral operation of lithotomy. ❋ Joseph Maclise (N/A)

Lateral lithotomy is performed in reference to the line A A; the bilateral operation in regard to the line ❋ Joseph Maclise (N/A)

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