alphonsin

See also: Alphonsin

English

Noun

alphonsin (plural alphonsins)

1. Alternative form of Alphonsin
   • 2008 August, HW Herr, “'Crushing the stone': a brief history of lithotripsy, the first minimally invasive surgery”, in BJU international, volume 102, number 4:

     Leroy designed an instrument for grasping the stone using three or four claw-ended arms, an idea he found in the alphonsin of Alphonso Ferri, a Neapolitan surgeon of the 16th century, who used metal arms to seize and extract bullets from wounds.