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calculous

[kal-kyuh-luhs] / ˈkæl kyə ləs /


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It’s not an especially complicated calculous: Hillary Clinton believes the current system is broken.

From MSNBC

In the second study, French researchers focused on just over 400 people who had acute calculous cholecystitis, an inflammation and enlargement of the gallbladder.

From US News

Such government subsidies don’t just provide financial assistance to those choosing institutional childcare; they can change the calculous for other families. 

From Forbes

Muller has justly observed that these experiments of Magendie have thrown considerable light on the causes and the mode of treatment of the gout and calculous disorders.

From Project Gutenberg

He had been little subject to disease, except an attack of the gout occasionally, until about the year 1781, when he was first attacked with symptoms of the calculous complaint, which continued during his life.

From Project Gutenberg