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irreducible (medicine) and bladder calculi (medicine)


irreducible (medicine)


irreducible


1. Incapable of being reduced, or brought into a different state; incapable of restoration to its proper or normal condition; as, an irreducible hernia.

2. <mathematics> Incapable of being reduced to a simpler form of expression; as, an irreducible formula.

<mathematics> Irreducible case, a particular case in the solution of a cubic equation, in which the formula commonly employed contains an imaginary quantity, and therefore fails in its application. Irredu"cibleness, Irredu"cibly.

Source: Websters Dictionary


bladder calculi (medicine)


bladder calculi
Calculi of the urinary bladder; also known as vesical calculi, bladder stones or gravel, and cystoliths. Vesicoprostatic calculi are prostatic calculi extending into the bladder.