Your doctor can break up or remove stones with a few different procedures. Shock wave lithotripsy (SWL): This works best for small or medium stones. Your doctor uses high-energy sound waves aimed from the outside of your body to break up the kidney stone into little pieces. These pieces will pass in your urine.
The Mycenaeans seem to have been a warlike people who measured their wealth by the number of weapons they owned. The Mycenaeans learned many Minoan customs and adapted Minoan ways to fit their own culture. The process by which a culture takes ideas from other cultures is known as cultural borrowing. The Mycenaeans borrowed Minoan religious beliefs. They changed Minoan art styles and pottery designs to make them more warlike. They also changed Minoan writing to match the Mycenaean language.
The Greeks picked up the story, which is found in its most complete form in Plato's dialogues, Timaeus and Critias. The Mycenaeans (c.1500-ll00 B.C.E.) were Greeks from the mainland who took advantage of the Minoans' weakened state to conquer Crete and assume Minoan dominance of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean. They were a vigorous and active people who engaged in trade and some piracy over a wide area extending from southern Italy in the west to Troy and the Black Sea in the northeast.