CYSTOLITH - Definition

Pronunciation:		'sistlith
WordNet Dictionary

	Definition:	[n] a calculus formed in the bladder

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	Synonyms:	bladder stone

	See Also:	calculus, concretion

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

	Definition:	\Cys"to*lith\ (s?s"t?-l?th), n. [Gr. ???? bladder + -lith.] 1. (Bot.) A concretion of mineral matter within a leaf or other part of a plant. 2. (Med.) A urinary calculus.

Biology Dictionary

	Definition:	A stalked structure growing from a cell wall into the cell cavity, encrusted with calcium carbonate. A mass of calcium carbonate concretion, occasionally silica, formed on ingrowths of modified epidermal cell walls in some plants, esp. of the Acanthaceae family.