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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[

Litho-

+ L.

terere

tritum

, to rub, grind.]

(Surg.)

The operation of breaking a stone in the bladder or urethrea into small pieces capable of being voided; lithotripsy.

Noun.

The operation of triturating the stone in the bladder, by means of an instrument called lithotritor.