lithiasis

American  

[li-thahy-uh-sis] / lɪˈθaɪ ə sɪs /

noun

Pathology.

1. the formation or presence of stony concretions, as calculi, in the body.

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lithiasis British  

/ lɪˈθaɪəsɪs /

noun

1. pathol the formation of a calculus

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Etymology

Origin of lithiasis

1650–60; < New Latin < Greek lithíāsis; lith-, -iasis

Example Sentences

All the way home I squirm in the passenger seat, with not the slightest notion that a renal lithiasis, a small, clumpy deposit made up of mineral and acid salts, has exited my kidney, in search of that proverbial light at the end of the tunnel.

From Salon

In the 2010 novel "The Sickness," by the Venezuelan writer Alberto Barrera Tyszka, a physician whose father is dying of lung cancer "finds the clinical terms unbearable," forming "part of a pretentious, useless dictionary": neoplasty, exeresis staphylococcal empyemapleural empyema anastomosis iliocolostomybiopsy haemostasis prothesis laparotomyischemia lithiasis.

From New York Times

Urolithī′asis, lithiasis; Urol′ogy, urinology; U′romancy, divination by urine; Uroplā′nia, the abnormal presence of urine in any part of the body; Uropoiē′sis, the formation of urine.—adj.

From Project Gutenberg

Lithiasis, li-thī′a-sis, n. a bodily condition in which uric acid is deposited as stone or gravel in the urinary canals.

From Project Gutenberg

He ignores the fact that nothing is more common, in neurotic patients who are perfectly guiltless of rheumatic propensities, than a fluctuation between lithiasis and oxaluria, neither of which phenomena, under the circumstances, indicates any more than a temporary defect of secondary assimilation of food, produced by nervous commotion.

From Project Gutenberg