renal calculus

Examples

• All

• The doctor explained that a renal calculus had formed in the patient's kidney, causing severe pain.

• Other findings on follow-up included one child with intussusception, one death which was sudden and unexplained, and one child with renal calculi.

  Academic text (1991)

• I also looked forward to telling Gus, who had himself suffered from the fabled renal calculi.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Radiography showed bilateral nephrocalcinosis and a right renal calculus.

  Academic text (1996)

• The index patient subsequently underwent right nephrotomies and ureterotomies for renal calculi and a left nephrectomy because of pyonephrosis.

  Academic text (1996)

• Pei Zhong has made outstanding contributions to the improvement and innovation of shock wave lithotripsy technology and for the characterization of the mechanical properties of renal calculi.

  Academic text (2011)

• He was relieved to find out that the renal calculus detected in his CT scan was small and could be managed with medication.

Synonyms

K

kidney stone

vsrenal calculus

18 3.7

A hard mass that forms in the kidney and often causes pain when you pee

focuses on mineral composition and location rather than symptoms

N

nephrolith

vsrenal calculus

• Specialized

9.5

A hard stone that forms in the kidney

is the same meaning but uses a different word form

U

urinary calculus

vsrenal calculus

• Specialized

7.2

A hard stone that forms in the kidney and can block urine

is specific to stones forming only inside the kidney

U

urolith

vsrenal calculus

• Specialized

9.9

A hard stone that forms in the bladder or tubes that carry urine

refers only to stones formed inside the kidney

C

calculus

vsrenal calculus

• Specialized

9.6

A hard lump of mineral that forms in organs like the kidney or gallbladder

applies only to stones that form inside the kidney

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology