Lithophone
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Lithophone is a noun meaning Any musical instrument in which sound is produced by percussion of a stone.
Meaning
Any musical instrument in which sound is produced by percussion of a stone.
More Meanings
- (medicine, dated) A device by which the presence of bladder stones can be audibly detected.
- Alternative form of lithopone.
Example Sentences
A sample of lithophone, one of the zinc sulphide whites examined by the author, had the following composition: […]
Lithophones are the oldest of the bar idiophones. We have already mentioned the ten note neolithic lithophone from Vietnam, but such instruments have died out.
Ogston of Aberdeen, has invented and advertised in the Lancet a new instrument which is termed a " lithophone," and is to enable surgeons to hear a stone in the bladder.
It is needless to dwell on the utility of the lithophone for finding vesical calculi and small fragments after lithotrity. The instrument in figured in Le Progrés Medica, 3 April, 1880.
Word Forms
- lithophones
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include litholater, lithophany, qing, crystallophone, lithoclast, lithic.
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