Surg. [Back-formation from LITHOTRITY.] An instrument for crushing stone in the bladder into minute particles which can be passed through the urethra.
1839. R. Druitt, Surgeon’s Vade Mecum, VI. iv. 401. The instrument which has now superseded the foregoing, is the screw lithotrite of Mr. Weiss.
1876. Gross, Dis. Bladder, 149. The tumor was seized and torn away with the trilabe, or crushed by a lithotrite.
