urate

/ʊˈrɑrtiən/
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Other forms: urates

Definitions of urate
  1. noun
    a salt of uric acid
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    types:
    chalkstone, tophus
    a deposit of urates around a joint or in the external ear; diagnostic of advanced or chronic gout
    type of:
    salt
    a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
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