Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The production or origin of minerals or rocks; lithogenesy.
- noun In pathology, the formation of concretions in the body.
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- noun geology The formation of
sedimentary rock - noun pathology The formation of
calculi (stony concretions)
Etymologies
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From litho- + genesis
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