What does kidney stone mean?

kidney stone means "a calculus formed in the kidney".

What is another word for kidney stone?

Close synonyms include urinary calculus, nephrolith, renal calculus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is kidney stone a common word?

kidney stone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

kidney stone — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
a calculus formed in the kidney
Synonymsurinary calculus nephrolith renal calculus
Broadercalculus

Questions about kidney stone

What does kidney stone mean?: kidney stone means "a calculus formed in the kidney".
What is another word for kidney stone?: Close synonyms include urinary calculus, nephrolith, renal calculus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

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