urate

[ yoor-eyt ]

/ ˈyʊər eɪt /

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Origin of urate

First recorded in 1790–1800; ur(ic acid) + -ate²

OTHER WORDS FROM urate

u·rat·ic

[yoo-rat-ik], /yʊˈræt ɪk/, adjective

Words nearby urate

uranyl, urarthritis, Urartian, Urartu, urase, urate, uratemia, urate oxidase, uratosis, uraturia, Urawa

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How to use urate in a sentence

Rarely, sodium urate occurs in crystalline form—slender prisms, arranged in fan- or sheaf-like structures (Fig. 32).
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
It is possible—as in urate infarcts of infants—for urates to be molded into cylindric bodies within the renal tubules.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
The sediment usually contains abundant amorphous phosphates and crystals of triple phosphate and ammonium urate.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Compare the terrestrial octopus, which makes armor-plating out of calcium urate instead of excreting urea or uric acid.
Uller Uprising|Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr

Now dissolve the pure urate by washing it through the filter with a few cubic centimeters of the special nitric acid.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887|Various

British Dictionary definitions for urate

urate

/ (ˈjʊəreɪt) /

noun

any salt or ester of uric acid

Derived forms of urate

uratic (jʊˈrætɪk), adjective

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Medical definitions for urate

urate

[ yur′āt′ ]

A salt of uric acid.