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adj. - Relating to or caused by or having a solid concretion usually composed of mineral salts, formed around organic material, and found mainly in hollow organs, ducts, passages, and cysts

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  • Dr. Thornton says: "I have used old wine of white Currants for calculous affections, and it has surpassed all expectation."
  • Its juice acts energetically on the kidneys, and dissolves the calculous formations of earthy phosphates which frequently form in the bladder.
  • It is occasionally caused by calculous concretions in the bladder, -- which should be removed, -- causing very acute abdominal pain to the animal.
  • Medical examination carried out at the end of June - beginning of July 2009 revealed gallbladder stones and pancreatitis and calculous cholecystitis were diagnosed.
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  • Her "calculous" (characterized by the presence of stones in the gall bladder or kidney) condition especially bothered her during "calculus" (a system of mathematics) class.
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