cholelithiasis
noun
cholelithiasis is a noun meaning “Gallstones: gallstone disease” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-O-L-E-L-I-T-H-I-A-S-I-S, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cholelithiasis is cholelithiases.
What does cholelithiasis mean?
noun
- 1
Gallstones: gallstone disease.
Near-synonym: cholecystolithiasis (broadly synonymous)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cholelithiasis
- cholelithiases plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cholelithiasis?
Cholelithiasis appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does cholelithiasis come from?
From chole- + lithiasis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).