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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

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

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

Coesper erat: tunc lubriciles ultravia circum Urgebant gyros gimbiculosque tophi; Moestenui visae borogovides ire meatu; Et profugi gemitus exgrabuêre rathae.

From The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) by Collingwood, Stuart Dodgson

These nodular concretions are called tophi or chalkstones.

From The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition by Duncan, A. W.