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lithoclast|ˈlɪθəklɑːst, -æ-|
[f. litho- + Gr. -κλάστης breaker, f. κλᾷν to break.]
†1. A stone-breaker. Obs. rare—1.
1829Burckhardt Trav. Arabia I. 307 A party of horsemen..were ready..to assist the lithoclast, as soon as he should have executed his task.
2. Surg. An instrument for breaking up stone in the bladder.
1847South tr. Chelius' Surg. II. 560 The perforating instruments..have been set aside by Jacobson's lithoclast. 1882Sir H. Thompson Dis. Urinary Organs xii. (ed. 6) 81 Urethral lithoclasts.
Hence lithoˈclastic a., pertaining to the lithoclast or to lithoclasty; ˈlithoclasty [cf. F. lithoclastie], ‘the reduction of a vesical calculus into fragments by the aid of the lithoclast’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1889). |