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calculous, a.|ˈkælkjʊləs|
[ad. L. calculōs-us, f. calculus stone, pebble; corresp. to F. calculeux.]
1. Med. Of or pertaining to a calculus or the stone; diseased with the stone; calculary.
1605Timme Quersit. iii. 156 A remedy..to mittigate and to dissolue such calculous & stony matter. 1683Robinson in Ray's Corr. (1848) 137 A good medicine in some scorbutic and calculous cases. a1801W. Heberden Comment. xvi. (1806) 84 In opening the bodies of calculous persons. 1803Med. Jrnl. IX. 355 To ascertain the precise nature of calculous urine. a1827Abernethy Surg. Wks. (1827) II. 207 No calculous concretion was found after death. 1858Lond. Rev. Oct. 230 A victim of confirmed calculous disease.
†2. Stony (as the ‘calculary’ of a pear). Obs.
1671Grew Anat. Plants vi. §3 A simple Body, having neither any of the Lignous branches in it, nor any Calculous Knots. |