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What is the meaning of calculus?

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Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc., A method of computation; any process of reasoning by the use of symbols; any branch of mathematics that may involve calculation.

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