Crossword-Solution: TOPHUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tophus | n. | One of the mineral concretions about the joints, and in other situations, occurring chiefly in gouty persons. They consist usually of urate of sodium; when occurring in the internal organs they are also composed of phosphate of calcium. |
| Tophus | n. | Calcareous tufa. |
Anagrams
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| TOPHUS | anagram | PUSHTO, SHOTUP, UPSHOT |
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| MINERAL concretion in the body | 1 answer |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with TOPHUS (5)
CONCRETA, coagulated from particles agglutinated at random; as urinary and salivary calculi; tartar of wine; pumice, formed by fire; stalactite, formed by air; tophus, produced under water, as oolite.
Hoc autem fieri hac ratione videtur, quod sub his montibus et terra ferventes sunt fontes crebri, qui non essent, si non in imo haberent, aut de sulfure, aut alumine, aut bitumine ardentes maximos ignes: igitur penitus ignis, et flammæ vapor per intervenia permanans et ardens, efficet levem eam terram, et ibi, qui nascitur tophus, exugens est, et sine liquore.
The high-spanned vaulted arches and partitions still rested on their firm foundations of Tophus stone, their ruined roofs supported by massive pillars, broken, pierced and creviced.
All his joints became swollen, and spots of chalky tophus showed whitely, like lobster's eyes, through his skin in all parts.
From perpetually licking one another’s skins, they supply fine specimens of Œgagropiles, the light and polished balls of hair, the _Tophus Ovinus_ of Norway, so commonly found in the stomachs of Brazilian cows.