Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small, hard, pathological concretion, composed chiefly of cholesterol, calcium salts, and bile pigments, formed in the gallbladder or in a bile duct.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A concretion formed in the gall-bladder; a biliary calculus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See
calculus , n., 1.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine A small, hard object, in the shape of a
pebble , that sometimes forms in thegallbladder orbile duct ; composed ofcholesterol ,bile pigments andcalcium salts .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts
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Examples
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A gallstone is a concentration of the components of bile, the primary component being cholesterol.
The Fiber35 Diet Brenda Watson with Leonard Smith 2007
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A gallstone is a concentration of the components of bile, the primary component being cholesterol.
The Fiber35 Diet Brenda Watson with Leonard Smith 2007
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Of course, we're continuing to follow this story of the attorney general who's suffering apparently from a very painful condition called gallstone pancreatitis.
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The attorney general, in intensive care, is undergoing treatment for a painful condition called gallstone pancreatitis, or simply inflammation of the pancreas, which doctors say was caused by a gallstone.
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Damage to the liver or an obstruction of some kind in the bile duct (called a gallstone) can lead to serious problems such as cholestasis, steatorrhea, or jaundice.
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Damage to the liver or an obstruction of some kind in the bile duct (called a gallstone) can lead to a serious problems such as cholestasis, steatorrhea, or jaundice.
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O'BRIEN: And of course gallstones, we should mention, they're actually a common problem for many American men especially, but only a small number develop some kind of gallstone disease, and an even smaller percentage get pancreatitis out of that, so we'll talk to Sanjay about just how serious this problem is.
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With the exception of madder, those colours mostly affected by _light and air_ are of organic origin, such as gallstone, Indian yellow, and the yellow dye-wood lakes; the red and purple lakes of cochineal; indigo; and sap green.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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An Illinois man getting chemotherapy was dropped from his insurance plan when his insurer discovered an unreported gallstone the patient hadn't known about.
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An Illinois man getting chemotherapy was dropped from his insurance plan when his insurer discovered an unreported gallstone the patient hadn't known about.
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