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nephrolithiasis

noun

nephrolithiasis is a noun meaning “The formation of, and thus also the presence of, calculi in the kidneys (kidney stones)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-E-P-H-R-O-L-I-T-H-I-A-S-I-S, and it appears about once in every 56 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does nephrolithiasis mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The formation of, and thus also the presence of, calculi in the kidneys (kidney stones).

    Near-synonym: urolithiasis (broadly synonymous)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is nephrolithiasis?

Nephrolithiasis appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th 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 nephrolithiasis come from?

By surface analysis, nephro- + lithiasis, or, by surface analysis, nephrolith + -iasis.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).