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n. - A deposit of urates around a joint or in the external ear.

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  • And as I put a rotating torque force on that intermediate chalkstone that's the one that rotated.
  • The building is constructed of basalt and chalkstone and made use of elements from an earlier structure on the site.
  • A monumental effigy was also erected to him, "made of white chalkstone"; and this is almost certainly the figure now placed
  • Extrication required amputation — Mr. Ralston 's left-handed severing of his right forearm, which was pinned between a chalkstone boulder and the canyon wall.
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