CYSTOTOMY

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) The operation of cutting into the bladder for the extraction of a stone or other extraneous substance. CYTHERiEA. In Mythology, a name given to Venus, from the island Cythera, where she was worshipped with peculiar veneration. {Ovid. Fast, iv.285.) CYTINACEvE. (Cytinus, one of the genera.) In Botany, a natural order of Rhizanths inhabiting the south of Europe, the Cape, and Guinea. They are very little known, and have no sensible properties of importance. Pelletier says that Cytinus has the property of preci,pitating gelatin without containing tannin. [s. 325]