Library / English Dictionary

URATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A salt of uric acid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("urate" is a kind of...):

salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "urate"):

chalkstone; tophus (a deposit of urates around a joint or in the external ear; diagnostic of advanced or chronic gout)

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 Context examples: 

Overall, colchicine decreases leukocyte chemotaxis/migration and phagocytosis to inflamed areas, and inhibits the formation and release of a chemotactic glycoprotein that is produced during phagocytosis of urate crystals.

(Colchicine, NCI Thesaurus)

Colchicine may also interrupt the cycle of monosodium urate crystal deposition in joint tissues, thereby also preventing the resultant inflammatory response.

(Colchicine, NCI Thesaurus)