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Definition of Tophi
1. tophus [n] - See also: tophus
Medical Definition of Tophi
1. The plural of tophus. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tophi
Literary usage of Tophi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Clinical Lectures on the Diseases of Old Age by Jean Martin Charcot, Alfred Lebbeus Loomis (1881)
"He regards tophi, adduced by the humorists in support of their theory, as purely
accidental occurrences. For him, gout results from a sort of plethora, ..."
2. Clinical Lectures on Senile and Chronic Diseases by Jean Martin Charcot (1881)
"tophi.—Deposits of sodium urate in the cartilages.—Pain.— General reaction.—Visceral
symptoms.—Insufficiency of our actual knowledge ou this head. ..."
3. Clinical Lectures on Senile and Chronic Diseases by Jean Martin Charcot (1881)
"Treatment of the local affection, of the tophi and rigidity of joints.—Treatment
of abnormal gout.—Dietetics. Treatment of chronic articular rheumatism. ..."
4. Clinical Diagnosis: A Text-book of Clinical Microscopy and Clinical by Charles Phillips Emerson (1906)
"Tophus—The tophi of gout, so important in diagnosis, can only be distinguished
from small sebaceous cysts, small cartilaginous tumors, etc., ..."
5. Clinical Diagnosis: A Text-book of Clinical Microscopy and Clinical by Charles Phillips Emerson (1908)
"The tophi of gout, so important in diagnosis, can only be distinguished from
small sebaceous cysts, small cartilaginous tumors, etc., by the microscopic ..."
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