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LITHIASIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lithiasis mean?
• LITHIASIS (noun)
The noun LITHIASIS has 1 sense:
1. the formation of stones (calculi) in an internal organ
Familiarity information: LITHIASIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The formation of stones (calculi) in an internal organ
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("lithiasis" is a kind of...):
pathology (any deviation from a healthy or normal condition)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lithiasis"):
cholelithiasis (the presence of gallstones in the gallbladder)
enterolithiasis (the presence of calculi in the intestines)
nephrolithiasis; renal lithiasis (the presence of kidney stones (calculi) in the kidney)
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