lithotrity

English

Etymology

From litho- + Latin terere, tritum (“to rub, grind”).

Noun

lithotrity (plural lithotrities)

  1. (surgery) The operation of breaking a stone in the bladder into small pieces capable of being voided.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for lithotrity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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