Associations to the word «Gallstone»

Wiktionary

GALLSTONE, noun. (medicine) A small, hard object, in the shape of a pebble, that sometimes forms in the gallbladder or bile duct; composed of cholesterol, bile pigments and calcium salts.

Dictionary definition

GALLSTONE, noun. A calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope