Meaning & use
cystorrhaphy
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A surgical procedure involving the suturing of the urinary bladder, typically to repair a tear or rupture.
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The surgeon performed a cystorrhaphy to repair the bladder injury following the accident.
Veterinarians sometimes perform cystorrhaphy on animals with traumatic bladder rupture.
A note on using this word
Combines the Greek roots "cysto-," meaning bladder, and "-rhaphy," meaning suturing, a pattern shared by many surgical terms such as "gastrorrhaphy."
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bladder repair
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