urate
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- uratic adjective
Etymology
Origin of urate
First recorded in 1790–1800; ur(ic acid) + -ate 2
Example Sentences
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Medications such as allopurinol are widely used to lower urate levels in the blood.
From Science Daily • Apr. 14, 2026
When urate levels rise too high, crystals can form and collect in the joints, leading to intense pain and swelling.
From Science Daily • Jan. 9, 2026
Uric acid is not expelled as a liquid but is concentrated into urate salts, which are expelled along with fecal matter.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
They found the finger loaded with spiky urate crystals, gathered in tophi that had eaten away at his 16th-century bones.
From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 2011
The large proportions of phosphorus in the form of phosphates and of nitrogen as ammonium oxalate and urate renders it a valuable fertilizer.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
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