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cholelithiasis

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What does cholelithiasis mean?

noun

  1. Gallstones: gallstone disease.

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Even assuming that their special malaises are wholly offset by the effects of alcoholism in the male, they suffer patently from the same adenoids, gastritis, cholelithiasis, nephritis, tuberculosis, carcinoma, arthritis and so on—in short, from the same disturbances of colloidal equilibrium that produce religion, delusions of grandeur, democracy, pyaemia, night sweats, the yearning to save humanity, and all other such distempers in men.
H. L. (Henry Louis) MenckenIn Defense of WomenProject Gutenberg ebook #1270