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UK
/kɒŋkɹˈɛʃən/
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NOUN
- the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts
- an increase in the density of something
- the formation of stonelike objects within a body organ (e.g., the kidneys)
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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
How To Use concretion In A Sentence
- The concern with material concretion begins with Bernstein's title, With Strings.
- The Brushy Basin sediments contain numerous chalcedony pseudomorph-after-barite concretions that range to more than 30 cm in diameter.
- FLAMMEA) is not nacreous and could not therefore produce a true pearl, but merely g porcellaneous concretion, which, however, might possess a most attractive tint, possibly pale salmon or orange. Tropic Days
- Limited dolomitization of the calcite around the edges of the fossils and in the matrix of the concretion occurred at a later stage.
- The fossils of the westernmost exposures of the Hoko River Formation are allochthonous, preserved in reworked concretions within conglomerates that were deposited as part of a submarine fan system during late Eocene time.
- Concretions of chalcedony after barite can be confused with cycads, and the wise collector must learn to differentiate between the two.
- The generation of deep import, of a notion and an affective response, does involve a concretion of all that surface import into a coherent unity. Archive 2009-07-01
- It has since been given to phosphatic concretions found chiefly in the greensand in Suffolk and Elements of Agricultural Chemistry
- The concretion matrix is dominantly an interlocking mosaic of calcite, ferroan dolomite and quartz.
- Simultaneous with the burst of colors, the human witness would have seen the emergence of an astronomical number of atoms in the form of a rotating, black disciform concretion. Invasion
