phleboliten.
/ˈflɛbəlʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈflɛbəˌlaɪt/ Medicine. Now rare.
= phlebolith n.
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1830 Medico-chirurg. Trans. 16 70 The left hæmorrhoidal veins were in part healthy, while some contained phlebolites.
1835 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. IV. 443/1 Phlebolites have been found most frequently in the veins which return the blood from the uterine organs, the bladder, prostate gland, and rectum.
1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) Phlebolite, a loose concretion, varying in size from a currant to that of a pea, occasionally found in the veins.
1874 W. H. Van Buren & E. L. Keyes Pract. Treat. Surg. Dis. Genito-urinary Organs 217 Certain concretions found in the dilated veins..and known as phlebolites.
1909 Lancet 2 Jan. 18/1 The most common causes of false shadows are the presence in the abdomen or in its walls of substances with a high absorptive index, such as fæcal accumulations, fruit stones,..and phlebolites.
1997 Arthroscopy 13 509/1 Radiography occasionally reveals phlebolites associated with the tumor [sc. synovial hemangioma].
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1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 939/2 Phlebolithus, Phleboliticus,..: phlebolithic, phlebolitic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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