(n.) A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of the breast, and forming a part of the double breastplate of the 14th century.
(n.) A piece of plate armor covering the same parts and worn over the buff coat in the 17th century, and without other steel armor.
(n.) A small ornamental plate, usually crescent-shaped, and of gilded copper, formerly hung around the neck of officers in full uniform in some modern armies.
(n.) A ruff worn by women.
(n.) A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
(n.) A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; -- called also blunt gorget.
(n.) A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The procedure need not require the use of holding sutures to evert the urethra, a gorget or similar device to aid the manipulation of the instrument into the bladder nor sutures to close the urethra.
Lithotomy
Definition:
(n.) The operation, art, or practice of cutting for stone in the bladder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Common problems were identified, including lack of a family support person throughout labour, lithotomy position for delivery, episiotomies and their sequelae, breast-feeding difficulties and lack of professional support in the early puerperium at home.
(2) To test the effect of different patient positions on urethral mobility, we conducted a prospective controlled study measuring the relative cephalad displacement of the prostatic apex in 3 positions, that is the supine, frog-leg and dorsal lithotomy positions.
(3) A combined synchronous abdominoperineal approach was used with the patient in the lithotomy-Trendelenburg position.
(4) Hospital stay, costs and narcotic analgesic use were significantly less for ureteroscopic stone removal than for open surgical lithotomy.
(5) Lithotomy was successfully finished without serious complications in all cases.
(6) Sclerosing injection was carried out in all cases with 6 ml Phenylamygdalic oil by 3, 7 and 11 o'clock lithotomy position.
(7) Percutaneous lithotomy was performed upon 300 of 302 consecutive patients bearing stones which required removal.
(8) Values in the supine position were similar to those seen in non-pregnant subjects, but there was a significant reduction in LOSP and BrP in the lithotomy position unrelated to any change in intragastric pressure.
(9) While percutaneous lithotripsy and extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy have emerged as the mainstay of extirpative therapy, surgical lithotomy is the standard to which other therapies must be compared.
(10) The tests were conducted using a variety of fetal biclavicular diameters (10-13 cm) and maternal pelvic angle positions (McRoberts, 10 degrees; lithotomy, 25 degrees).
(11) The few known biographical data and the methods of lithotomy commonly used in the 18th century are presented.
(12) The lithotomy position is known to decrease venous blood flow and predispose to lower extremity venous thrombosis.
(13) Compartment syndrome occurred after a tubal anastomosis in a prolonged lithotomy position.
(14) The modified lithotomy position is used to provide simultaneous operative exposure to the abdomen and perineum.
(15) Half the patients received, in addition, a caudal anaesthetic given by the surgeon at the beginning of the operation with the patient in the lithotomy position.
(16) When comparing lithotomy versus McRoberts positioning, there was a consistent reduction in force needed to extract the fetal shoulders with the latter maneuver.
(17) Patients treated by open surgical lithotomy remained in the hospital for 11.0 days and required 21 doses of narcotics.
(18) With the patient placed in the lithotomy position, an endoscope was introduced after mucosal anesthesia with xylocaine jelly.
(19) When used as 15,000 U per 24 hrs in those patients who were exposed to lithotomy or nephrectomy the drug led to a 5-fold decrease in the incidence of phlebothrombosis.
(20) One hundred patients underwent measurements of their ankle-arm index, the ratio of their ankle systolic pressure compared to their brachial blood pressure, preoperatively (AAI); immediately after being placed in the lithotomy position (AAII); and immediately prior to returning to the supine position (AAIII).