salivary calculus

1. 1.

   a stone formed in the salivary gland

   Synonymssialolith

   Broadercalculus

Questions about salivary calculus

What does salivary calculus mean?

salivary calculus means "a stone formed in the salivary gland".

What is another word for salivary calculus?

Close synonyms include sialolith. 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 salivary calculus a common word?

salivary calculus 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.