chalkstone

English

Etymology

From chalk + stone.

Noun

chalkstone (plural chalkstones)

  1. (obsolete) A mass or piece of chalk.
  2. (medicine) A chalk-like concretion, consisting mainly of urate of sodium, found in those affected with gout; a tophus.
    • 1794 January 23, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Thraliana:
      [T]he thoughts of his breeding Gout so fast shocks me: it has beside all the rest made a Deposit in the Great Toe—I mean in the Joint, as if intending a Chalkstone.

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