tophus

How To Use tophus In A Sentence

• Interestingly, come to think of it, the digraph ph is often the mark of foreignness in Latin loans from Greek, as in our discussed word tōphus. The etymology of Latin tofus 'tufa' isn't written in stone
• 2 Skinner, The origin of medical terms (1961), 2nd edition, p.406 (see link): "Latin - tophus or tofus, from the Greek τόφος, a loose, porous, kind of stone (Hebrew, toph). The etymology of Latin tofus 'tufa' isn't written in stone
• Et tophus fcaber, et nigris exefa chelydris Creta, negant alios seque ferpentibus agros Dulcem ferre cibum, et curvas praebere latebras. P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield
• One swallow does not make a summer, but one tophus makes gout and one crescent malaria.
• Diagnosis is by removing fluid from an affected joint or tophus and identifying urate crystals under a polarized-light microscope.
• 4 Diab, Lexicon of orthopaedic etymology (1999), p.353 (see link): "NB: the spelling tophus perhaps was introduced into Latin as the more learned form, as though it were of Greek origin. The etymology of Latin tofus 'tufa' isn't written in stone
• Less commonly, a septic arthritis of the knee or the big toe can occur in association with gout, particularly when a tophus has ulcerated and become secondarily infected.
• Four years later, he obtained uric acid from a gouty tophus.
• If histopathology of a tophus or synovial biopsy suggests gout, fine-needle aspiration may be an alternative for crystal identification and subsequent definitive diagnosis.
• Sometimes, if gout lasts for many years, uric acid crystals can collect in the joints or tendons, under the skin, or on the outside the ears, forming a whitish deposit called a tophus. Undefined