Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A deposit of urates in the skin and tissue around a joint or in the external ear, occurring in gout.
- noun A concretion of mineral salts and organic matter deposited on the surface of the teeth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A concretion of calcareous matter which forms on the cartilaginous surface of the joints, and on the pinna of the ear, in gout; a gouty deposit.
- noun Calc tufa.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) One of the mineral concretions about the joints, and in other situations, occurring chiefly in gouty persons. They consist usually of urate of sodium; when occurring in the internal organs they are also composed of phosphate of calcium.
- noun (Min.) Calcareous tufa.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine A
deposit of monosodium uratecrystals in the body, caused by high levels ofuric acid in theblood .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a deposit of urates around a joint or in the external ear; diagnostic of advanced or chronic gout
- noun an incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Sometimes, if gout lasts for many years, uric acid crystals can collect in the joints or tendons, under the skin, or on the outside the ears, forming a whitish deposit called a tophus.
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Et tophus fcaber, et nigris exefa chelydris Creta, negant alios seque ferpentibus agros Dulcem ferre cibum, et curvas praebere latebras.
P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796
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4 Diab, Lexicon of orthopaedic etymology (1999), p.353 (see link): "NB: the spelling tophus perhaps was introduced into Latin as the more learned form, as though it were of Greek origin."
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2 Skinner, The origin of medical terms (1961), 2nd edition, p.406 (see link): "Latin - tophus or tofus, from the Greek τόφος, a loose, porous, kind of stone (Hebrew, toph)."
The etymology of Latin tofus 'tufa' isn't written in stone 2009
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4 Diab, Lexicon of orthopaedic etymology (1999), p.353 (see link): "NB: the spelling tophus perhaps was introduced into Latin as the more learned form, as though it were of Greek origin."
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2 Skinner, The origin of medical terms (1961), 2nd edition, p.406 (see link): "Latin - tophus or tofus, from the Greek τόφος, a loose, porous, kind of stone (Hebrew, toph)."
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