kidney stones

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Small, hard masses that form by chemical precipitation and are found in the kidneys. Kidney stones vary in size, with most of them being small enough to pass through the urinary tract for elimination in the urine. Some, however, may be large enough to obstruct the kidney and cause tremendous pain.

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How to use kidney stones in a sentence

Over two days in August, rioters and looters rampaged through stores and threw stones.
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Sticks and stones may break my bones / but chains and whips excite me.
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Inspired, he began picking up more stones each day and taking them home in his pockets.
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The Infinity Stones are six magical stones that, when inserted into the Infinity Gauntlet, grant the wearer infinite power.
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It was pretty magical to be so close and feel what people were intended to feel next to those stones.
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They are succeeded by kidney shaped capsules of a brown color.
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One whist table only is at work; General Pepper and three old hands of the same kidney are hard at it.
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Five hundred of our fighting men are running to and fro between cliffs and sea carrying stones wherewith to improve our pier.
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He walked about, stumbling over sticks and stones and stumps, sometimes falling down on soft moss, and again on the hard ground.
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The finding of blood-casts is the only certain means of diagnosing the kidney as its source.
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