concretion
noun
con·cre·tion
kän-ˈkrē-shən 
kən-
1
: something concreted: such as
a
: a hard usually inorganic mass (such as a bezoar or tophus) formed in a living body
b
: a mass of mineral matter found generally in rock of a composition different from its own and produced by deposition from aqueous solution in the rock
2
: the act or process of concreting : the state of being concreted
concretion of ideas in a hypothesis
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The museum was interested and asked to keep it to work on it to take off the many layers on concretion on it.
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Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 20 June 2024
Parade sets out to go beyond the novel’s habitual concretion, to undo our attachment to the stability of selfhood and its social markers.
—Nicholas Dames, The Atlantic, 14 June 2024
Henderson said the concretion helped preserve the skin, preventing even bacteria from breaking it down.
—Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2023
The head of the ankylosaur still partly encased in the concretion it was discovered in.
—Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2023
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Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 20 June 2024
Parade sets out to go beyond the novel’s habitual concretion, to undo our attachment to the stability of selfhood and its social markers.
—Nicholas Dames, The Atlantic, 14 June 2024
Henderson said the concretion helped preserve the skin, preventing even bacteria from breaking it down.
—Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2023
The head of the ankylosaur still partly encased in the concretion it was discovered in.
—Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2023
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concretion
noun
con·cre·tion
kän-ˈkrē-shən
kən-
1
: a hard usually inorganic mass formed in a living body
2
: a lump or egg-shaped mass of mineral matter found in rock of different composition
Medical Definition
concretion
noun
con·cre·tion
kän-ˈkrē-shən, kən-
: a hard usually inorganic mass (as a tophus) formed especially from mineral salts in a living body
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