noun
urolithiasis; urinary stone
Obsolete medical term for stones in the urinary tract, including kidney stones and bladder stones. Modern Japanese uses 尿路結石 (にょうろけっせき) for urolithiasis, 腎結石 (じんけっせき) for kidney stones, and 膀胱結石 (ぼうこうけっせき) for bladder stones.
See also: 尿路結石
江戸時代の医学書には「石淋」という病名が記されている。
Medical texts from the Edo period record the disease name 'sekirin' (urinary stone).
From Chinese 石淋 (shílín), a traditional medical term for urinary stone disease. The kanji 淋 originally referred to dripping or urinary difficulty.