(pathology) A concretion formed in the intestine.
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enterolith
McGraw-Hill Science & Technology Dictionary:
enterolith |
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Oxford Food & Nutrition Dictionary:
enterolith |
Stone within the intestine, commonly builds up around a gall stone or swallowed fruit stone.
American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary:
en·ter·o·lith |
(ĕn'tə-rō-lĭth')
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An intestinal calculus formed of layers surrounding a nucleus of a hard indigestible substance.
Saunders Veterinary Dictionary:
enterolith |
A calculus in the intestine; they achieve their greatest importance in horses where they can cause obstruction of the large intestine. In most cases the resulting attacks of colic are recurrent. The enteroliths are smooth, lamellated objects consisting of ammonium magnesium phosphate and occur in mature animals.
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 | McGraw-Hill Science & Technology Dictionary. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. Copyright © 2003, 1994, 1989, 1984, 1978, 1976, 1974 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Read more |
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| Oxford Food & Nutrition Dictionary. A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition. Copyright © 1995, 2003, 2005 by A. E. Bender and D. A. Bender. All rights reserved. Read more |
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| American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary. The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Read more |
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| Saunders Veterinary Dictionary. Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary 3rd Edition. Copyright © 2007 by D.C. Blood, V.P. Studdert and C.C. Gay, Elsevier. All rights reserved. Read more |
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