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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In surgery, a form of lithotrity; a method of crushing stone in the bladder and evacuating it.

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Examples

  • Some come to receive extracorporeal litholapaxy treatments, others come to get treatment for heart problems.

    CASTRO VISITS SAN JOSE DEL LAGO MOTEL 1989

  • We did not have litholapaxy services and now we have them in several provinces.

    INAUGURATION CEREMONY OF THE EXPANSION 1989

  • We did not have extracorporeal litholapaxy for many years simply because that equipment did not exist.

    INAUGURATION CEREMONY OF THE EXPANSION 1989

  • The extracorporeal litholapaxy service was inaugurated with equipment valued at over $2 million.

    MONCADA BARRACKS ANNIVERSARY SPEECH 1988

  • We began testing the extracorporeal litholapaxy unit there, in Ameijeiras.

    GRADUATING MEDICAL STUDENTS 1988

  • This past 26 July, Santiago de Cuba received an extracorporeal litholapaxy unit.

    GRADUATING MEDICAL STUDENTS 1988

  • It now offers such services as computerized axial tomography equipment, extracorporeal litholapaxy, and semi-hyperbaric chambers to serve the eastern provinces.

    CASTRO TOURS CARDIOLOGY CENTER 1988

  • With regard to this, he mentioned how two highly advanced techniques are already available to the Santiago de Cuba population; computerized tomography and extracorporeal litholapaxy, which cost millions of dollars.

    CASTRO INAUGURATES CONTRAMAESTRE HOSPITAL 1988

  • (? somatic) [word indistinct], the extracorporeal litholapaxy, two hyperbaric cameras, 514 modern medical equipment items, and a group of civil and non-medical works which (? include) a park, power plants, surgical rooms, and 344 beds and tables that constitute the first part of the modern furnishings this hospital will have when it is completed at the end of the year. [end recording]

    FURTHER ON INAUGURATION OF CONTRAMAESTRE HOSPITA 1988

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