choledocholithotomy
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From choledoch + -o- + lithotomy.
Noun[edit]
choledocholithotomy (plural choledocholithotomies)
- (medicine) The removal of the gallstone from the bile duct in a case of choledocholithiasis.
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 578:
- Two months later, he opened the duct of another patient and took out gallstones – the first choledocholithotomy.