tophus
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tophi
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Origin of tophus
1545–55; < Latin tōphus, tōfus tufa
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Smooth, dark gray tophus predominates; it forms the bed of the Rio Pasig, and rising forms hillocks in the vicinity of the city of Binangonan.
From The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient by Murat Halstead
This flux is composed of equal portions of iron slag, white tophus, and salt.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
Concreta, coagulated from particles agglutinated at random; as urinary and salivary calculi; tartar of wine; pumice, formed by fire; stalactite, formed by air; tophus, produced under water, as oolite.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray
Among the multitude of stones there is tophus.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
It is dissolved into ochre, and regenerated into tophus.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray
If gout progresses, crystals will form everywhere from the toes and elbows to the fingers, wrists and ears, in chalky white lumps called tophi.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2011
Within six months of starting the treatments, the tophi on White's hands and legs had melted away, and she was able to resume a normal life.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2011
They found the finger loaded with spiky urate crystals, gathered in tophi that had eaten away at his 16th-century bones.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2011
These nodular concretions are called tophi or chalkstones.
From The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition by A. W. Duncan
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