lithotome

  1. Noun.  A stone so formed by nature as to appear as if cut by art.
  2. Noun.  (surgery) An instrument used for cutting the bladder in operations for the stone.

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.