noun
definition
Any salt of uric acid.
example
The deposition of urate crystals in the joints leads to gout.
Examples of urate in a Sentence
Outside the body piperazin has a remarkable power of dissolving uric acid and producing a soluble urate, but in clinical experience it has not proved equally successful.
In health most of the nitrogenous waste in the body is eliminated as urea, but in gout uric acid is either formed in too great quantity or too little is eliminated, so that it tends to be deposited as urate of soda in the joints and other tissues.
During an attack of acute gout nothing relieves so much as colchicum, but during the intervals potash or lithia salts taken in water are advisable, as tending to prevent the deposits of urate of soda.
If urate crystals can be seen in the fluid under a microscope, you have gout.
The doctor also may find it helpful to examine chalky, sodium urate deposits (tophi) around joints to diagnose gout.
Experimental work shows that losartan (tho not its active metabolite) competitively inhibits urate reabsorption in the renal proximal tubule.
Urate is normally harmless and the body usually passes excess urate is normally harmless and the body usually passes excess urate out of the body through the kidneys into the urine.
Consumption of cherries lowers plasma urate in healthy women.
Subsequent dosage should be reduced, to the lowest level which maintains serum urate within the normal range.
The disease is caused by the deposition of sodium urate (uric acid) crystals in the joints.
The plasma urate level normally tends to be higher in men than women.
A laboratory technician places some of the fluid on a slide and looks for monosodium urate crystals under a microscope.
These changes result in an increase of about 50% in creatinine clearance, and a fall in serum urea, creatinine and urate.
The level of urate in the blood can help to make the diagnosis of gout.
Lead and uric acid Clinical bottom line Chronic low level lead exposure may inhibit urate excretion.
The inflammation is caused by urate crystals being shed into the joints.
It is described as ' for urate stones '.
Blood urate is commonly normal during acute attack but should be raised at other times.
The urate crystals can reactivate when the air is humid, and then he will be drawn back to those spots to soil again.