Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Pathological formation of mineral concretions in the body.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology:
- noun A condition of the body in which uric acid is deposited in the form of stone or gravel in the urinary passages, or in gouty concretions in the tissues.
- noun In a general sense, the formation of stony deposits of any kind in any part of the body.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) The formation of stony concretions or calculi in any part of the body, especially in the bladder and urinary passages.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine The process of forming
stone -like deposits orcalculi formed in an internal organ, such as agallstone in thegall bladder .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the formation of stones (calculi) in an internal organ
Etymologies
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Examples
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Rotunda -- brought on a serious attack of "lithiasis" as it is now called, and prostrated me for two months, until it was time to leave England en route for my post.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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He himself bore them submissively for thirteen years; for six he suffered from lithiasis, and for seven years from stomatitis (or, as some say, six years from the former and seven from the latter).
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various
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It may be associated with salivary lithiasis, xerostomia, or organic narrowing of the ducts, but in the majority of cases no such cause can be discovered (D.M. Greig).
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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It is absolutely necessary to examine the external genitals and the urine of those affected by this disease, as phlegmasiæ of the vagina, of the vestibule or urethra in girls, or the practice of onanism, or lithiasis, cystitis, or pyelitis may be the cause of the disease.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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(nephrolithiasis) in patients with renal tubular acidosis (RTA) with calcium stones, hypocitraturic calcium oxalate stones of any etiology and uric acid lithiasis, with and without uric acid stones.
Medindia Health News 2010
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