NEPHROTOMY

An Illustrated Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary · 1894 · p. 3

n. Neaf-ro2t'om-i2. Lat., nephrotomia (from 4>p6s, the kidney, and re>viv, to cut), sect to renal is (seu ren is). Fr., nephrotomie. taille du rein. Ger., Nierenschnitt, Nephrotomie. The operation of cutting into the kidney. [E.] [s. 80]