| 释义 |
† trilabe Obs. rare—0.
[According to Mayne, ‘f. Gr. τρεῖς three + λάβ-ειν to lay hold on’. Cf. astrolabe.]
A surgical instrument with three expansible prongs: see quot.
1860Mayne Expos. Lex., Trilabe, name of an instrument for extracting foreign bodies of sufficiently moderate size from the bladder through the urethra, having three branches capable of being expanded in the bladder, and then closed on the object to be withdrawn. |