NOUN
- a position lying on your back with knees bent and thighs apart; assumed for vaginal or rectal examination
How To Use lithotomy position In A Sentence
- Patients undergoing cytoreductive surgery combined with intraperitoneal chemotherapy are required to be in the lithotomy position for many hours.
- Two patients were unable to assume a lithotomy position for the conventional cystoscopic procedure.
- After discussing this with the orthopedic surgeon, we agreed the surgeon would remain during the cystoscopy to help with positioning the patient into the lithotomy positioning device.