Chalkstone

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A mass or piece of chalk. obsolete

    "[W]hen he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up."

  2. 2
    a deposit of urates around a joint or in the external ear; diagnostic of advanced or chronic gout wordnet
  3. 3
    A chalk-like concretion, consisting mainly of urate of sodium, found in those affected with gout; a tophus.

    "[T]he thoughts of his breeding Gout so fast shocks me: it has beside all the rest made a Deposit in the Great Toe—I mean in the Joint, as if intending a Chalkstone."

Etymology

From Old English ċealcstān, equivalent to chalk + stone.

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