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A calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts
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gallstone
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Wikipedia
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A gallstone is a stone formed within the gallbladder out of bile components. The term cholelithiasis may refer to the presence of stones in the gallbladder or to the diseases caused by gallstones. Most people with gallstones (about 80%) never have symptoms. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ About half the patients develop gallstones. ▪ Biliary supersaturation with cholesterol is a prerequisite for cholesterol gallstone formation. ▪ It's the latest hi-tech development in the battle against gallstones, which affect ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1758, from gall (n.1) + stone (n.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context medicine English) A small, hard object, in the shape of a pebble, that sometimes forms in the gallbladder or bile duct; composed of cholesterol, bile pigments and calcium salts.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts [syn: bilestone ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gallstone \Gall"stone`\, n. A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus , n., 1.
Usage examples of gallstone.
There were no cases where gallstones or rheumatoid arthritis, say, were cured, much less cancer or cardiovascular disease.
Certain diseases plague women (thyroid & bladder disorders, anemias, spastic colon, varicose veins, migraines, gallstones, arthritis, asthma) but men have deadlier problems (heart disease, strokes, emphysema) and more visual-hearing defects.
In 1814 a white substance with a fatty consistency was obtained from gallstones and was named cholesterin (koh-les'ter-in.
A fracture, a burn, a cut, a dropsy, a menopause, a pregnancy, two pelvics, a scattering of colds, a feeding schedule, two teethings, a suspicious lung, a possible gallstone, a cirrhosis of the liver and Martha Anderson.
On occasion such crystals conglomerate to form sizable gallstones that may block the cystic duct through which bile ordinarily passes into the small intestine.
But before the trees had blossomed for the fourth time since Baudolino had met him, Otto was reduced to a shadow of himself by malarial fevers, pains in all his joints, fluxions of the chest, not to mention gallstone.
The pressure of blocked fluid can likewise give rise to pain, such as that produced by gallstones and kidney stones.