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/kɒŋkɹˈɛʃən/
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NOUN
- the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts
- an increase in the density of something
- the formation of stonelike objects within a body organ (e.g., the kidneys)
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a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body
renal calculi can be very painful
How To Use concretion In A Sentence
- Renal stones develop when abnormal concretions of calculi form in the kidneys or bladder, becoming impacted and sometimes obstructing the flow of urine. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
- In a Hydropicall body ten years buried in a Church-yard, we met with a fat concretion, where the nitre of the Earth, and the salt and lixivious liquor of the body, had coagulated large lumps of fat, into the consistence of the hardest castle-soap: wherof part remaineth with us. A Bit of Soap
- In its conception and concretion, the Otter Creek feeding facility was a monument to Horace Albright's philosophy of aesthetic conservation.
- Taken together, they impart a kind of tenuous concretion to the vague concept of nationhood.
- Yuki's face scrunched up in concretion.
- Otolith: a little ear-bone: granules or concretions found in an otocyst. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
- Without appearing to suggest anything beyond a trifling blemish in this story, replete as it is with edifying illustrations of the frailties of human nature, it would be well to remember that the helmet shell (CASSIS FLAMMEA) is not nacreous and could not therefore produce a true pearl, but merely g porcellaneous concretion, which, however, might possess a most attractive tint, possibly pale salmon or orange. Tropic Days
- The bodies of many smaller concretions are surrounded by a shell of fine-grained pyrite.
- The point of such criticisms is not to recommend a ‘materialist’ poetics supposedly granting direct access to a realm of concretion undisturbed by concepts.
- The areas along fault planes were subjected to a shearing action that produced a pattern of fracturing that is different from the desiccation cracking of a normal septarian concretion.