urate
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of urate
First recorded in 1790–1800; ur(ic acid) + -ate 2
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Medications such as allopurinol are widely used to lower urate levels in the blood.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 14, 2026
Gout was often portrayed as a condition caused mainly by food choices that raise urate levels.
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
Professor Nasse, of Bonn, where my son studied medicine at the time, has analyzed the calculi, and has found them to be urate of lime.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
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