Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
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latericeous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like bricks; of the color of red bricks.
- adjective (Med.) a sediment in urine resembling brick dust, observed after the crises of fevers, and at the termination of gouty paroxysms. It usually consists of uric acid or urates with some coloring matter.
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- adjective medicine Like
bricks ; of areddish brick colour.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The urine which had hitherto been of good colour, and sufficient quantity, now became diminished, and lateritious; and the ancles œdematous.
An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases William Withering 1770
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Hence the quantity of the sediment, and the colour of the urine, in fevers, depend much on the quantity secreted by the kidnies, and the quantity absorbed from it again in the bladder: the kinds of sediment, as the lateritious, purulent, mucous, or bloody sediments, depend on other causes.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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But it seldom happens that this matter sinks to the bottom of the urine; and it is but very rarely that the lateritious sediment of the urine, resembling brick-dust.
Observations on the Distinguishing Symptoms of Three Different Species of ... 1813
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Thorax thickly clothed with fawn-coloured hairs; body above, shining ochrey inclined to orange; short tuft at the end of the body; underside lateritious; upper surface of first pair of wings fawn, with a reddish hue, densely covered with hair-like scales, with shorter and somewhat square scales beneath, the scales over the nervures, being reddish; an indistinct line of seven obscure spots still more indistinctly connected by a zigzag reddish line, runs across the wing nearly parallel to its apical margin, and nearer the tip of the wing than the middle.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855
ruzuzu commented on the word lateritious
It has a name?
May 31, 2010
milosrdenstvi commented on the word lateritious
Though "brick-coloured", it seems to be only used in description of anatomy, if the examples are anything to follow. (You never know when you'll need some Practical Remarks on Dropsy!)
May 31, 2010
bilby commented on the word lateritious
My first thought was 'made of laterite' but the dictionary definitions only refer to the colour.
May 31, 2010