lithoclast
(ˈlɪθəklɑːst, -æ-)
[f. litho- + Gr. -κλάστης breaker, f. κλᾷν to break.]
† 1. A stone-breaker. Obs. rare—1.
| 1829 Burckhardt Trav. Arabia I. 307 A party of horsemen..were ready..to assist the lithoclast, as soon as he should have executed his task. |
2. Surg. An instrument for breaking up stone in the bladder.
| 1847 South tr. Chelius' Surg. II. 560 The perforating instruments..have been set aside by Jacobson's lithoclast. 1882 Sir H. Thompson Dis. Urinary Organs xii. (ed. 6) 81 Urethral lithoclasts. |
Hence lithoˈclastic a., pertaining to the lithoclast or to lithoclasty; ˈlithoclasty [cf. F. lithoclastie], ‘the reduction of a vesical calculus into fragments by the aid of the lithoclast’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1889).