combining form of URETHRA, occurring in various surgical and pathological terms, as urethrocele, -gram, -graph, -meter, -plasty, -rrhaphy, -scope, -scopy, -stonosis, -stomy, -tome, -tomy sbs.; urethrogenital, -metric, -plastic, -rectal, -scopic, -sexual, -vaginal, -vesical adjs.
Various other terms appear in recent or special Dicts., as urethrobulbar, -cystitis -penile, -perineal, -phraxis, -plastic, -scopical, -spasm, -tomic, etc. (Cf. F. uréthroplastie, -rrhagie, -rrhaphie, -rrhée, -scope, -scopie, -tome, -tomie.)
1873. Lancet, 7 June, 811/2. Such a *urethrocele proved extremely inconvenient to a married lady.
1885. Buck’s Handbk. Med. Sci., I. 519/1. Urethrocele … affects the posterior wall a few millimetres above the orifice.
1840. G. V. Ellis, Anat., 452. The *urethro-genital portion of the perinæal space.
1893. Medical Press, 8 Feb., 144/1. The Urethrometer.—B shows the mechanism which takes a *urethrogram by the pencil points A writing on a sliding slip of paper.
1884. G. Herschel in Lancet, 5 April, 608/1. A technical description of my *urethrograph.
1884. Erichsen, Surg. (ed. 8), II. 1092. For the purpose of measuring these slight strictures, Otis, of New York, has invented an instrument which he calls the *‘urethrometer.’
1895. Arnold & Sons’ Surg. Instrument Catal., 572. Urethrometer (Mac Munn’s), automatic.
1884. Knight, Dict. Mech., Suppl. 916/2. *Urethrometric Sound, an olivary sound in a canula.
1856. Lancet, 4 Oct., 378/2. Delpech … performed a *urethroplastic operation. Ibid. (1845), 25 Jan., 83/2 (heading), *Urethro-plasty.
1861. Erichsen, Surg. (ed. 3), 1095. Urethroplasty may in such cases be advantageously practised.
1857. Lancet, 5 Sept., 247/2. Followed by the formation of a *urethro-rectal fistula.
1883. Holmes, Syst. Surg. (ed. 3), III. 682. *Urethroraphy is performed by refreshing the edges of the fistula [etc.].
1893. Lancet, 13 May, 1135/2. The above cases of circular urethrorraphy. Ibid. (1868), 12 Dec., 768/2. A very simple *urethroscope.
1886. Buck’s Handbk. Med. Sci., II. 659. The Urethroscope in position.
1895. Arnold & Sons’ Surg. Instrument Catal., 573. *Urethroscopic Tube (Otis’s).
1899. Brit. Med. Jrnl., 2 Dec., 1544. Urethroscopic examination showed the presence of a simple gonorrhœa.
1890. Billings, Med. Dict., II. 725. *Urethroscopy.
1901. Lancet, 31 Aug., 599/1. The illumination … by a source of light from the outside, reflected into the tube, is as old as urethroscopy itself.
1835–6. Owen, in Todd’s Cycl. Anat., I. 348/1. The same segment of the cloaca … is therefore termed the *urethro-sexual cavity.
1841. Penny Cycl., XXI. 161/1. The urethro-sexual canal.
1848. Dunglison, Med. Dict. (ed. 7), 874. *Urethrostenosis, stricture of the urethra.
1900. R. Harrison, Vasectomy, 44. Remote results of structural lesions in urethro-stenosis.
1900. Brit. Med. Jrnl. Epit., 28 April, 66/2. Perineal *Urethrostomy:… In this operation, the first stage of which is an ordinary external urethrotomy, the exposed urethra is cut across.
1849. Craig, s.v., *Urethrotome.
1860. Lancet, 21 July, 58/2. Two cases of stricture of the urethra successfully treated by the urethrotome dilator. Ibid. (1874), 13 June, 830/2. Along this the tunneled eye of the urethrotome is threaded.
1848. Dunglison, Med. Dict. (ed. 7), 874. *Urethrotomy.
1852. Lancet, 28 Aug., 204/2. Who invented urethrotomy on a grooved staff as a cure for stricture?
1867. Biennial Retrospect (New Syd. Soc. XXXII), 321. Internal urethrotomy is more prompt in execution.
1853. Erichsen, Surg., 864. *Urethro-vaginal fistulæ are … of most common occurrence.
1885. Buck’s Handbk. Med. Sci., I. 519/1. The whole thickness of the urethro-vaginal wall.
1873. Lancet, 15 Nov., 699/2. *Urethro-vesical calculus.
