Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In surgery, the operation of opening encysted tumors for the discharge of morbid matter; specifically, the operation of cutting into the urinary bladder for the extraction of a stone or for any other purpose.
Wiktionary
- n. A surgical operation which consists of making an incision into the urinary bladder.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act or practice of opening cysts; esp., the operation of cutting into the bladder, as for the extraction of a calculus.
Examples
“In such a case a cystotomy would be indicated were the bullet discovered in the viscus.”
“As a catheter would not pass, he was placed in a warm bath, and shortly after passed a Mauser bullet per urethram, and thus saved himself a cystotomy.”
“I believe the ideal treatment would be a supra-pubic cystotomy and drainage of the bladder by a Sprengel's pump apparatus, such as we employ at home.”
“The Ephemerides contains an account of a case in which cystotomy was repeated four times, and there is another record of this operation having been done five times on a man.”
“At the University Hospital, Philadelphia, White has extracted, by median cystotomy, a long wax taper which had been used in masturbation.”
“By cystotomy Reamy removed a double hair-pin from a woman pregnant six and a half months, without interruption, and according to Mann again, McClintock extracted stones from the bladder by the urethra in the fourth month of pregnancy, and Phillips did the same in the seventh month.”
“Tulpius, * [842] Walther, * [815] and the Ephemerides each report an instance of self-performed cystotomy.”
“White has extracted, by median cystotomy, a long wax taper which had been used in masturbation.”
“Ephemerides contains an account of a case in which cystotomy was repeated four times, and there is another record of this operation having been done five times on a man.”
“By cystotomy Reamy removed a double hair-pin from a woman pregnant six and a half months, without interruption, and according to”
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cysto-, cyst-
of or relating to the bladder
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