[Formed after LITHOTRITOR, by substitution of suffix: see -Y.] The operation of crushing a stone in the bladder by means of a lithotrite.
1830. trans. Baron Heurteloup (title), Cases of Lithotrity or Examples of the Stone cured without incision.
a. 1862. Sir B. Brodie, Autobiog. (1865), 144. After the year 1835 … I scarcely ever had recourse to lithotomy at all, substituting for it that of lithotrity.
1878. Walsham, Surg. Pathol., 396. The operations of lithotomy, lithotrity, and puncture.
attrib. 1860. N. Syd. Soc. Year-bk. Med., 295. Statistical Analysis of twenty-one Lithotrity Operations.
