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LITHOTOMY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Surgical removal of a stone (calculus)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("lithotomy" is a kind of...):
ablation; cutting out; excision; extirpation (surgical removal of a body part or tissue)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lithotomy"):
cholelithotomy (removal of gallstone through an incision in the gallbladder)
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