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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LATERITIOUS

a.[L. lateritius, from later, a brick. ] Like bricks; of the color of bricks. Lateritious sediment, a sediment in urine resembling brick dust, observed after the crises of fevers, and at the termination of gouty paroxysms.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

LATERITIOUS

Lat "er *i "tious, a. Etym: [L.lateritius, fr. later a brick. ]

 

Defn: Like bricks; of the color of red bricks. Lateritious sediment (Med. ), a sediment in urine resembling brick dust, observed after the crises of fevers, and at the termination of gouty paroxysms. It usually consists of uric acid or urates with some coloring matter.