lithotomes

Noun

lithotome (plural lithotomes)

1. (archaic) An instrument used for cutting the bladder to remove a calculus; a cystotome.
2. A mineral resembling a cut gem, formed that way by nature.
   • On the walls of these stupendous structures is written and sculptured the history, as well as the religion, of Egypt, from Osirtasen I., who reigned four thousand five hundred years ago, down to the Roman Augustus: these are the earliest and the latest names inscribed on the lithotomes of Karnak.1873, Foster Barham Zincke, Egypt of the Pharaohs and of the Khedivé, page 128