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English Dictionary: urinary calculus by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
urinary calculus
n
  1. a calculus formed in the kidney [syn: kidney stone, urinary calculus, nephrolith, renal calculus]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Urinary \U"ri*na*ry\, a. [L. urina urine: cf. F. urinaire.]
      1. Of or pertaining to the urine; as, the urinary bladder;
            urinary excretions.
  
      2. Resembling, or being of the nature of, urine.
  
      {Urinary calculus} (Med.), a concretion composed of some one
            or more crystalline constituents of the urine, liable to
            be found in any portion of the urinary passages or in the
            pelvis of the kidney.
  
      {Urinary pigments}, (Physiol. Chem.), certain colored
            substances, urochrome, or urobilin, uroerythrin, etc.,
            present in the urine together with indican, a colorless
            substance which by oxidation is convertible into colored
            bodies.
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