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noun- A machine used for generating ultrasonic waves and focusing them on a chosen site in the body to crush items such as kidney stones.

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  • One of the relatively new devices is the lithotripter used to break up kidney stones.
  • In most large cities in the United States there is at least one hospital with a lithotripter.
  • Canada ranks 18th out of 23 OECD countries in MRIs per capita and 17th out of 22 OECD countries in the number of computed tomography (CT) scanners per capita. 2 Worse yet,...
  • Cook will market and distribute LMA's StoneBreakerTM, a portable pneumatic, endoscopic lithotripter for stone fragmentation.
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