Definitions for lithic

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lithic lith·ic

Spelling: [lith-ik]

IPA: /ˈlɪθ ɪk/

Lithic is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in lithic (chiilt).

Definitions for lithic

noun

1. Archaeology. a stone artifact.

adjective

1. pertaining to or consisting of stone.
2. Petrology. pertaining to clastic rocks, either sedimentary or volcanic, containing a large proportion of debris from previously formed rocks:
3. Pathology. pertaining to stony concretions, or calculi, formed within the body, especially in the bladder.
4. Chemistry. of, relating to, or containing lithium.

Origin of lithic

First recorded in 1790-1800, lithic is from the Greek word lithikós of stone. See lith-, -ic

Examples for lithic

Alkalies are thus of use in a tendency to lithic acid deposit.

I have also seen it connected, as lithic acid frequently is, with a tendency to cutaneous disease.

The deposits in which solvents are appropriate are termed respectively lithic and Phosphatic.

A suppression of the secretion of the skin causes a lithic deposit in some cases, as in a common "cold."

For the solvent passes out along with each successive quantity of the lithic or Phosphatic matter that is formed and excreted.

Excessive indulgence in animal food or in wine may cause an over-secretion of lithic acid.

Most commonly it is composed of a lithic acid or mulberry nucleus, and an external crust of the fusible calculus.

Acids dissolve a phosphatic, and Alkalies or their carbonates a lithic deposit, in the body, as well as out of it.

Similarly, in Oxaluria, oxalic acid is found there; in Lithiasis, lithic acid in excess.

It has been used as a solvent for lithic calculi, and in gout, &c.—Dose, 15 to 30 gr.