tophus in English
noun
1
a deposit of crystalline uric acid and other substances at the surface of joints or in skin or cartilage, typically as a feature of gout.
Joint damage in hyperuricemia causes classical attacks of gout but tophi may also develop in cartilage, tendons and other tissues.
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1. 27 Gout is a kind of disease for purin metabolized turbulence. If it reiteration for Long time, it will come into being tophus.
2. Medical definition of Chalkstone: a concretion resembling chalk that is composed mainly of urate of sodium and found especially in and about the small joints of persons suffering from gout : tophus.