Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A substance (C3H5NO2S) crystallizing in colorless six-sided plates, and constituting a rare kind of urinary calculus.
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Leucin, tyrosin, lithic acid, lithates, xanthin, cystin, keratin, sulphureted hydrogen, etc., are deposits in the urine and are signs of the derangement of the intestinal canal and liver.
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The following selection will be found sufficient for his purpose: A set of the chief varieties of uric acid, calcic oxalate, and triple phosphate; the urates and oxalurates; urea nitrate, calcic hippurate and carbonate, hippuric acid, cystin, well mounted "casts" of the _tubili uriniferi_, spermatozoa, etc.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 Various
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