lithotome

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An instrument used for cutting the bladder to remove a calculus; a cystotome. archaic
  2. A mineral resembling a cut gem, formed that way by nature.
    — On the walls of these stupendous structures is written and sculptured the history, as well as the religion, of Egypt, from Osirtasen I., who reigned four thousand five hundred years ago, down to the Roman Augustus: these are the earliest and the latest names inscribed on the lithotomes of Karnak.

词形变化

lithotomes plural

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lithotomic lithotomist lithotomize lithotomy

词源

From Ancient Greek λιθοτόμον (lithotómon, “instrument for cutting the bladder”), neuter of λιθοτόμος (lithotómos, “stone-cutting”), equivalent to litho- + -tome.
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