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See Calculus.

Tending to prevent the formation of urinary calculi, or to destroy them when formed. -- n.

Of or pertaining to calculi.

Caused, or characterized, by the presence of a calculus or calculi; a, a calculous disorder; affected with gravel or stone; as, a calculous person.

n the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc.

ubstance, C3H7NSO2, containing sulphur, occuring as a constituent of certain rare urinary calculi, and occasionally found as a sediment in urine.

A remedy supposed capable of dissolving concretions in the body, such as calculi, tubercles, etc.

chitis arising as a secondary disease during the progress of gout. -- Gouty concretions, calculi (urate of sodium) formed in the joints, kidneys, etc., of sufferers from gout. -- Gouty kidney, an affection occurring during the progress of gout, the kidney shriveling and containing concretions of urate of sodium.…

The formation of stony concretions or calculi in any part of the body, especially in the bladder and urinary passages. Dunglison.

of or pertaining to gravel, or renal calculi. Dunglison.

Of or containing urates; as, uratic calculi.

likewise a common constituent, either as the free acid or as a urate, of urinary or renal calculi and of the so-called gouty concretions. From acid urines, uric acid is frequently deposited, on standing in a cool place, in the form of a reddish yellow sediment, nearly always crystalline. Chemically, it is composed of c…

een, pancreas, and other organs, and also in urine (in small quantities) and some urinary calculi, and in the juices of certain plants; -- so called because it leaves a yellow residue when evaporated to dryness with nitric acid. Xanthine is closely related to uric acid.