cystotomy

"But we have the cystotomy to do this morning."

A cystotomy is a surgical opening of the urinary bladder.

They had to put in a permanent suprapubic cystotomy tube."

Bladder stones can be removed surgically by a cystotomy, opening of the bladder.

'My dear, I am tolerably good at carrying out a suprapubic cystotomy.

'Cystotomy: if there is no infection - and infection at sea is much rarer than in hospital - most men support it perfectly well.

Opérations de cystotomie suspubienne, ca. 1827 - Operations of suprapubic cystotomy.

"Cystotomy" (1850)

A capsulotomy (rarely known as cystotomy) is a procedure to open a portion of the lens capsule, using an instrument called a cystotome.

Lithoclastic cystotomy is attributed to Ammonius Lithotomos (stone-cutter) of Alexandria, Egypt.

I have an urgent cystotomy,' said Choate, 'and as we were speaking of it at our Sunday supper, I am come to beg for your assistance.' '

Lithoclastic cystotomy is attributed to Ammonius Lithotomos (stone-cutter), from which arose the term lithotomy, now having the arbitrary signification of cutting for the stone.

Some stones are too large even for cystoscopic treatment and may require open cystotomy, in which an incision is made in the bladder and the stones are removed manually.

The operation of cystotomy for the relief of chronic cystitis, and also that for the cure of abscess of the appendix vermiformis, are among his contributions to the art of surgery.

The suprapubic cystostomy (spelled "cystotomy", without the "s") is a specialty of the fictional physician Stephen Maturin in Patrick O'Brian's twenty-one volume series on the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic era.