Associations to the word «Concretion»

Wiktionary

CONCRETION, noun. The process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass.
CONCRETION, noun. A solid, hard mass formed by a process of aggregation or coalescence.
CONCRETION, noun. (petrology) A rounded mass of a mineral, sometimes found in sedimentary rock or on the ocean floor.
CONCRETION, noun. The action of making something concrete or the result of such an action.

Dictionary definition

CONCRETION, noun. The formation of stonelike objects within a body organ (e.g., the kidneys).
CONCRETION, noun. 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".
CONCRETION, noun. An increase in the density of something.
CONCRETION, noun. The union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope