What it means
The ending of words for stones that form in the body. A nephrolith is a kidney stone, a cholelith is a gallstone and a fecalith is a hard lump of stool. The root lith/o starts words such as lithotripsy, breaking up stones with shock waves, and lithotomylih-THOT-uh-meeA position lying on the back with the hips and knees bent and the legs raised and spread apart, often in stirrups.lith/o stone-tomy cutting intoFull entry .
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lith/o
A word root that means stone.
allopurinol
A drug that lowers the body's production of uric acid, taken daily to prevent gout attacks and kidney stones.
lithotomy
A position lying on the back with the hips and knees bent and the legs raised and spread apart, often in stirrups.