calculousadj.
/ˈkalkjʊləs/ 1. Medicine. Of or pertaining to a calculus or the stone; diseased with the stone; calculary.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [adjective] > concretion
kernellyc1400
calculous1605
tartarous1605
calculating1607
tartareous1625
calculative1657
calculary1660
calculose1714
petrescent1758
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke iii. 156 A remedy..to mittigate and to dissolue such calculous & stony matter.
1683 T. Robinson in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 137 A good medicine in some scorbutic and calculous cases.
a1801 W. Heberden Comm. Hist. & Cure Dis. (1806) xvi. 84 In opening the bodies of calculous persons.
1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 9 355 To ascertain the precise nature of calculous urine.
a1827 J. Abernethy Surg. Wks. (1827) II. 207 No calculous concretion was found after death.
1858 London Rev. Oct. 230 A victim of confirmed calculous disease.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > [adjective]
hardeOE
braasny1382
dure1412
flinty?1541
obdurate1598
putaminous1598
oakeda1618
marblya1620
obdure1625
marmorean1656
durous1666
calculous1682
scirrhous1694
horn-hard1768
marmoreal1798
1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants i. vi. 41 A simple Body, having neither any of the Lignous branched in it, nor any Calculous Knots.
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