tophus

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun a deposit of urates around a joint or in the external ear; diagnostic of advanced or chronic gout
noun an incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums

From Latin tophus (“stone”).

Sir, it is an arcanum, which I have discovered, and prepared with infinite labour.--Sir, I have lately cured a woman in Bristol--a common prostitute, sir, who had got all the worst symptoms of the disorder; such as nodi, tophi, and gummata, verruca, cristoe Galli, and a serpiginous eruption, or rather a pocky itch all over her body. — The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, T. (Tobias) Smollett

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