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the branch of mathematics that is concerned with limits and with the differentiation and integration of functions

the branch of mathematics that is concerned with limits and with the differentiation and integration of functions

Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc.

A method of computation; any process of reasoning by the use of symbols; any branch of mathematics that may involve calculation.

Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc.

A method of computation; any process of reasoning by the use of symbols; any branch of mathematics that may involve calculation.

An abnormal concretion occurring mostly in the urinary and biliary tracts, usually composed of mineral salts. Also called stones.

A branch of higher mathematics; a hard substance sometimes formed in the kidneys or bladder.

Arteriolith.

A concretion formed in any portion of the body, usually (except in the case of gallstones) formed of inorganic matter, often deposited around a minute fragment of organic material, the nucleus.

Concretion resembling a stone, forming in an animal.

One of the higher branches of mathematics: a stone-like concretion which forms in certain parts of the body.

A stone like concretion. as in the bladder.

A method of calculating by algebraic symbols.

In surg., the stone in the bladder; a part of the mathematics.

A diminutive of calx, a lime-stone. (F.) Calcul, Pierre. Calculi are concretions, which may form in every part of the animal body, but are most frequently found in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the excretory canals. They are met with in the tonsils, joints, biliary ducts, digestive passages, lachrymal ducts, mammae, pancreas, pineal gland, prostate, lungs, salivary, spermatic and urinary passages, and in the uterus. The causes which give rise to them are obscure. Those that occur in reservoirs or ducts are supposed to be owing to the deposition of the substances, which compose them, from the fluid as it passes along the duct; and those which occur in the substance of an organ are regarded as the product of some chronic irritation. Their general effect is to irritate, as extraneous bodies, the parts with which they are in contact; and to produce retention of the fluid, whence they have been formed. The symptoms differ, according to the sensibility of the organ and the importance of the particular secretion whose discharge they impede. Their solution is generally impracticable: spontaneous expulsion or extraction is the only way of getting rid of them.

Pl. calculi. A stone-like concretion in any organ.

PI. calculi. An aggregation (generally pathological) of matter forming a concretion, more or less resembling a pebble or a particle of gravel, in a canal or a hollow organ of the body. The varieties commonly met with are: urinary and biliary calculi, stones formed in the kidney, ureters, or urinary bladder or in the bile ducts or gall-bladder. Other varieties are: arthritic; bronchial; dental; hepatic; intestinal (see enterolith); mammary; nasal (see rhinolith); ovarian; pancreatic; prostatic; salivary; spermatic; stomachic; uterine. Differences in form are indicated by the terms coral c.; as in the calculus which is fitted into the calices of the kidney; hemp seed c, and mulberry c. Differences in composition are indicated by the terms blood c; fusible c; oxalate of lime c; serumal c; stercoraceous c; struvit c; submorphous c. ; xanthic.

n. [Latin] A pebble used in counting or voting;—any hard, solid concretion, formed in the excretory canals;—a method or computation;—one of the branches of mathematics.

The stone in the bladder.