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Meaning of CHALKSTONE

Pronunciation:  'chok`stown

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 Definition: [n]  a deposit of urates around a joint or in the external ear; diagnostic of advanced or chronic gout
 
 Synonyms: tophus
 
 See Also: urate

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Chalk"stone`\, n.
1. A mass of chalk.

         As chalkstones . . . beaten in sunder. --Isa. xxvii.
                                               9.

2. (Med.) A chalklike concretion, consisting mainly of urate
   of sodium, found in and about the small joints, in the
   external ear, and in other situations, in those affected
   with gout; a tophus.

 

 

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