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kidney stones

n. (kidney stone English)

Usage examples of "kidney stones".

Nervous disorders (rather too obviously) were thought to be alleviated by chewing the roots of the nerve vine and kidney stones by eating kidney beans.

I can't honestly say it was the worst pain I have suffered, though our book of medical symptoms says that kidney stones can indeed be among the worst agonies to afflict man.

I'd come through literal hell -- suffered kidney stones and broken legs, been chased by Pax troopers, dumped into a world with no land, eaten and regurgitated by an alien -- and she couldn't goddamn get away?

A deficiency would cause night-blindness, inflammation of the mucous membranes, and kidney stones, but such a combination is unlikely to be manifested outside countries suffering from famine conditions, where the victims would of course be deficient in every other vitamin too.

Robust though he was, the triple whammy of kidney stones, uremia, and encore surgery exacted a steep levy on Spike Cohen's constitution.

The pressure of blocked fluid can likewise give rise to pain, such as that produced by gallstones and kidney stones.

Mom had almost left us forever, I'd had kidney stones, my father had turned over familial power to us and spoken of marriage, family, and lifetime love as things that killed a person in the end.

Canute came down with kidney stones, evidently the result of emotional stress.

Manion to the reflexologist who dissolved his kidney stones by massaging his toes.

He didn't have any way of monitoring the build-up of some of that calcium in Libet's kidneys, which could lead ultimately to kidney stones.