The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cystotomy \Cys*tot"o*my\ (s??s-t?t"?-m?), n. [Gr. ???? bladder + ???? to cut: cf. F. cystotomie.] The act or practice of opening cysts; esp., the operation of cutting into the bladder, as for the extraction of a calculus.
Wiktionary
n. A surgical operation which consists of making an incision into the urinary bladder.
Usage examples of "cystotomy".
By cystotomy Reamy removed a double hair-pin from a woman pregnant six and a half months, without interruption, and according to Mann again, McClintock extracted stones from the bladder by the urethra in the fourth month of pregnancy, and Phillips did the same in the seventh month.
Jacob, and on two separate occasions he had the pleasure of carrying out his particular operation of suprapubic cystotomy in the presence of the Physician of the Fleet and of Poll, who comforted the patient and passed the sutures.
At the University Hospital, Philadelphia, White has extracted, by median cystotomy, a long wax taper which had been used in masturbation.
The Ephemerides contains an account of a case in which cystotomy was repeated four times, and there is another record of this operation having been done five times on a man.