(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).
Stone
Definition:
(n.) Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones.
(n.) A precious stone; a gem.
(n.) Something made of stone. Specifically: -
(n.) The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
(n.) A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
(n.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
(n.) One of the testes; a testicle.
(n.) The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
(n.) A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.
(n.) Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
(n.) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also imposing stone.
(n.) To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
(n.) To make like stone; to harden.
(n.) To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
(n.) To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
(n.) To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among its signatories were Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Danny Glover.
(2) Follow-up studies using radiological methods show worse results (recurrent stones in II: 21.2%, in I: 5.8%, stenosis of EST in II: 6.1%, in I: 3.1%): Late results of EST because of papillary stenosis are still worse compared to those of choledocholithiasis.
(3) Other serious complications were reservoir perforation during catheterisation in 3 and development of stones in the reservoir in 2 patients.
(4) In conclusion, 1) etiology of urinary tract stone in all recurrent stone formers and in all patients with multiple stones must be pursued, and 2) all stones either removed or passed must be subjected to infrared spectrometry.
(5) Predisposition to pancreatitis relates to duct size rather than stone size per se.
(6) Three of these patients, who had a solitary stone could successfully be treated by ESWL as monotherapy.
(7) In cholesterol stones and cholesterolosis specimens, relatively strong muscle strips had similar responses to 10(-6) M cholecystokinin-8 in normal calcium (2.5 mM) and in the absence of extracellular calcium.
(8) No significant complications were related to ESWL and 90% of those followed up after successful ESWL proved stone-free at 6 weeks.
(9) The addition of alcohol to the drinking-water resulted in the formation of stones rich in pigment.
(10) One biliary stone showed cholesterol with spherical bodies of calcium carbonate and pigment.
(11) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
(12) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(13) The minimal advantage in rapidity of stone dissolution offered by tham E over tham is more than offset by the considerably increased potential for toxic side effects.
(14) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.
(15) It is no longer necessary for the kidney to be free of stones at the end of the operation.
(16) So let's be clear: children taking this drug, which is administered orally, do not get stoned.
(17) Patients with unilateral renal stone(s) with at least 1 diameter between 7 and 25 mm.
(18) Whether they affect ureteral motility in vivo or whether they can counteract ureteral spasm associated with ureteral stones have not been established.
(19) Recurrent stones are usually "silent," and we do not usually treat asymptomatic stones.
(20) Forty impressions were poured with the disinfectant dental stone and a similar number were poured with a comparable, nondisinfectant stone.