combining form of URETER, occurring in various surgical and medical terms, as uretero-cystoneostomy, -cystostomy, -enterostomy, -lithotomy, -stomy, -tomy sbs.; uretero-genital, -uterine, -vaginal, -vesical adjs.
Many other instances occur in recent Dicts., etc., as ureterodialysis, -lith, -lithic, -lysis, -nephrectomy, -plasty, -pyelitis, -pyosis, -rrhaphy, -stenosis, -ureteral.
1893. Medical Press, 15 Nov., 503/2. *Uretero-Cystoneostomy,… that [operation] of placing a severed ureter in communication direct with the bladder.
1903. Med. Record, 13 June, 958 (Cent. Suppl.). *Ureterocystostomy.
1893. Brit. Med. Jrnl., Epit. 4 March, 34/1. Any attempt at *ureteroenterostomy would … be contraindicated in cases of atonic or relaxed condition of the lower orifice of the ureter.
1887. Lancet, 3. Sept., 496/1 (heading), *Uretero-genital fistulæ.
1893. Brit. Med. Jrnl., 7 Jan., 11/2. Case III. *Uretero-Lithotomy…. The patient was placed in the lithotomy position [etc.].
1901. Lancet, 6 April, 1034/1. The operations of ureterotomy and lumbar *ureterostomy. Ibid. (1885), 14 Feb., 296/2. Removal of the calculus impacted in the ureter by intra-peritoneal *ureterotomy is feasible.
1894. Ann. Surgery, Sept., 289. This case was one in which *uretero-ureterostomy might have been performed with advantage.
1887. Lancet, 3 Sept., 496/2. Conditions similar to those which give rise to *uretero-uterine fistulæ. Ibid. *Uretero-vaginal fistulæ.
1893. Brit. Med. Jrnl. Epit., 4 March, 34/1. The *uretero-vesicle [sic] sphincter … is only relaxed to give issue from time to time to a jet of urine.
