gallstone
/gawl-stohn/US // ˈgɔlˌstoʊn //UK // (ˈɡɔːlˌstəʊn) //
胆石,胆石症,胆结石,胆石病
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n.名词 noun
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- : an abnormal stonelike mass, usually of cholesterol, formed in the gallbladder or bile passages.
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In the spring of 2016, Jasmine was hospitalized with gallstones.
In the winter of 2017, Jasmine was hospitalized again with gallstones, and her prognosis wasn’t good.
In the fall of 2016, Jasmine developed her first pressure sores during hospitalizations for gallstones.
Michael Leitzmann, et al. “A Prospective Study of Coffee Consumption and the Risk of Symptomatic Gallstone Disease in Men.”
Such is the pain produced by lead-colic, or by the passage of a gallstone or renal calculus.
Another journal tells of a new gallstone cure that never fails to cause the stones to be passed even if they are big as walnuts.
Hysteria will imitate nearly every form of cramp, including even those due to gallstone and kidney calculus.
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