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Definition: Kidney Stone |
Kidney StoneNoun1. A calculus formed in the kidney. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | A stone that develops from crystals that form in urine and build up on the inner surfaces of the kidney, in the renal pelvis, or in the ureters. (references) |
Mining | A. See:nephrite; kidney iron ore; urolith.b. Any reniform nodule. (references) |
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Consumption of too much calcium can aggravate the development of kidney stones, since the most common type of stone is calcium oxalate. The calcium renders these stones radio-opaque and they can be detected by an KUB. Other examples of kidney stones include struvite (magnesium, ammonium and phosphate), uric acid, calcium phosphate, or cystine (the amino acid found only in people suffering from cystinuria). There are many types of kidney stone, and a person may be susceptible to only some of them.
Kidney stones are often idiopathic and asymptomatic until they start to move, but symptoms can include acute renal colic, nausea and vomiting, restlessness, dull pain, hematuria, and possibly fever.
Treatments include dietary modifications (including the advice to drink plenty of water), medications, and use of a lithotriptor. Surgery is rarely used to remove kidney stones; instead pain management is used while waiting for the stone to pass on its own. However, in severe cases, extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy, retrograde intrarenal surgery, percutaneous nephrolithotripsy, or open surgery may be necessary.
Isaac Asimov suffered from kidney stones, and wrote about how his pain was treated with morphine, saying that he feared becoming addicted to it if he ever needed it again.
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Kidney stones are unrelated to gallstones.External Links:
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Synonyms: Kidney StoneSynonyms: nephrolith (n), renal calculus (n), urinary calculus (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack. |
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Crosswords: Kidney Stone |
| English words defined with "kidney stone": chronic pyelonephritis ♦ nephrotomy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "kidney stone": cystine stone. (references) |
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Health | A type of kidney stone caused by infection. (references) | |
A rare form of kidney stone consisting of the amino acid cystine. (references) | ||
Blood in the urine, which can be a sign of a kidney stone or other urinary problem. (references) | ||
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| Language | Translations for "kidney stone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | камък в бъбрека, нефрит (axestone, greenstone, jade, nephrite, nephritis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | nefroliet (nephrolith). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | néphrolithe (f), calcul rénal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | nierenstein (nephrolith, renal calculus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אבן כליות (calculus, renal calculus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 腎"結石 , 腎石 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | じ"ぞうけっせき, じ"せき (signs of human habitation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | clagh eayl. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | idneykay onestay cálculo renal (urinary calculus, urinary concretion). (various references) piedra de riñón, cálculo renal (coral calculus, nephrolith, renal calculus, staghorn calculus, urinary calculus, urinary concretion). (various references) njursten. (various references) นิ่วในไต. (various references) böbrek taşı (urinary calculus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Petromyzon fluviatilis. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-k-n-n-o-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: tensioned. | |
-3 letters: dentines, desinent, doyennes, endnotes, inkstone, keynoted, keynotes, keystone, sonneted. | |
-4 letters: denotes, density, dentine, dentins, destine, destiny, dinkeys, disyoke, doeskin, donkeys, donnees, doyenne, dyneins, eikones, endites, endnote, enskied, enskyed, indenes, indents, intends, intense, intoned, intones, ketones, keynote, kidneys, kindest, nektons, neoteny, nonsked, nonskid, skeined, skinned, stenoky, syenite, tendons, tennies, tenoned, tension, tokened. | |
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