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ssifications or deposits of phosphates of lime in certain organs . . . are called osseous concretions. Dunglison.

Concretionary.

Pertaining to, or formed by, concretion or aggregation; producing or containing concretions.

Concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass.

Consisting of acini, or minute granular concretions; as, acinose or acinous glands. Kirwan.

A saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds in Galatia. It is soft and porous, and was formerly used for cleansing the skin from freckles and tetters, and also in leprosy. Dana.

f, from, in, or pertaining to, the belly or the intestines; as, alvine discharges; alvine concretions.

A calculous concretion found in the intestines of certain ruminant animals (as the wild goat, the gazelle, and the Peruvian llama) formerly regarded as an unfailing antidote for poison, and a certain remedy for eruptive, pestilential, or putrid diseases. Hence: Any antidote or panacea.

veying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts. Biliary calculus (Med.), a gallstone, or a concretion formed in the gall bladder or its duct.

Of the nature of a calculus; like stone; gritty; as, a calculous concretion. Sir T. Browne.

Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc.

A chalklike concretion, consisting mainly of urate of sodium, found in and about the small joints, in the external ear, and in other situations, in those affected with gout; a tophus.

A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum. "Clots of pory gore." Addison. Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach. Bacon.

; the act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state of being united; union; concretion.

lted together and suffered to cool, there is generated, by the colliquation, that sort of concretion we call "glass". Boyle.

A growing together; the collection or mass formed by concretion, or natural union. [Obs.] The concrement of a pebble or flint. Sir M. Hale

A compound or mass formed by concretion, spontaneous union, or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body. To divide all concretes, minerals and others, into the same number of distinct substances. Boyle.

Promoting concretion. Sir T. Browne.

A mass formed by concretion. [Obs.] Johnson.

A concretion of mineral matter within a leaf or other part of a plant.