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Chalkstone
Definitions
- 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 a deposit of urates around a joint or in the external ear; diagnostic of advanced or chronic gout wordnet
- 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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