Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Minute cylinders found in the urine in certain forms of Bright's disease. They are formed in the tubules of the kidneys. See renal cast, under cast.

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Examples

  • There was considerable vesical irritation for the first week, with abundant mucus in the urine, specific gravity was 1010; there were no albumin nor tube-casts nor uric acid in the urinary sediments.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • There was considerable vesical irritation for the first week, with abundant mucus in the urine, specific gravity was 1010; there were no albumin nor tube-casts nor uric acid in the urinary sediments.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

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