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noun Pathology.

a chalklike concretion in the tissues or small joints of a person with gout.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English, for sense “limestone”; 1730–40 for current sense. See chalk, stone

Related forms

chalk·ston·y, adjective

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chalkstone (ˈtʃɔːkˌstəʊn)

—n
	pathol another name for tophus

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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