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Webster 1913 Edition
Rhinolith
{
Rhi′no-lite
,Rhi′no-lith
, }Noun.
[
Rhino-
+ -lite
, -lith
.] (Med.)
A concretion formed within the cavities of the nose.
Definition 2024
rhinolith
rhinolith
English
Noun
rhinolith (plural rhinoliths)
- A calculus that forms in the nasal cavity.
- 1889, Clinic of the Month, The Practitioner, vol. 42, page 242
- Dr. J. Middlemas Hunt […] describes a case of rhinolith. […]. This proved to be a small nasal calculus, weighing seven grains, and consisting mostly of sequestrum of bone.
- 2002, Gary R. Strange, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, page 467
- A rhinolith is a mineralized nasal foreign body.
- 2004, G. H. Quay, A Monograph of Diseases of Nose and Throat, page 83
- Or the nucleus of a rhinolith may be a hardened piece of mucus […]. The symptoms produced by a rhinolith are the same as those caused by any other foreign object […].
- 1889, Clinic of the Month, The Practitioner, vol. 42, page 242
