GORGET, LITHOTOMY
\ɡˈɔːɡɪt], \ɡˈɔːɡɪt], \ɡ_ˈɔː_ɡ_ɪ_t]\
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Lithotome, Cutting Gorget, is the one used in the operation for the stone, for the purpose of dividing the prostate and the neck of the bladder, so as to enable the surgeon to introduce the forceps and extract the stone. At the end of this gorget is a crest or beak, which fits the groove of the staff, and admits of the gorget being passed along it into the bladder. Besides cutting, there are also blunt gorgets, intended to be introduced into the wound- their concavity serving as a guide for the forceps into the bladder. The chief modifications in the gorget have been made by Andouillet, Bell, Blicke, Bromfield, Cline, Desault, Foubert, Hawkins, Larrey, Lefevre, Michaelis, Thomas, &c.
By Robley Dunglison
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