TOPHUS

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

One of the mineral concretions about the joints, and in other situations, occurring chiefly in gouty persons. They consist usually of urate of sodium; when occurring in the internal organs they are also composed of phosphate of calcium.

2.
n.

Calcareous tufa.


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