urate
- noun
- /ˈjʊəreɪt/
- Specialized
:
urato
- To prevent kidney stones, it is important to manage urate levels in the body.
He also found that lithium urate had a generally calming effect on these Guinea pigs.
- He also found that lithium urate had a generally calming effect on these Guinea pigs.
Examples
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Our patient had a history of nephrolithiasis, which was later documented to be due to urate excretion.
Academic text (1995) -
Urate levels showed a statistically significant increase during tissue ischemia, but this increase was reduced during reperfusion.
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The only statistically significant difference involved the levels of sweat urate.
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Thus, there was a significant increase in sweat urate in the ischemic phase during wheelchair sitting.
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Sweat urate may well prove to be an important marker in future investigations as an indicator of tissue damage.
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High levels of uric acid raise the possibility of acute urate nephropathy.
Academic text (1995) -
During ischemia, urate production may be increased as a result of degradative loss of high-energy phosphate metabolites (19).
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Results indicated that tissues subjected to pressure ischemia produced a general increase in concentrations of lactate, chloride, urea, and urate associated with a decreased sweat rate.
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The study involving the supine position demonstrated similar increases in chloride, sodium, and urea, but no significant increases in lactate and urate were observed in the ischemic phase.
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High levels of urate in the blood can indicate a risk for conditions like gout.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Urate comes from uric, a word linked to urine, and the chemical ending -ate ('a salt', as in sulfate). So urate means a 'salt' of uric acid, which is why it is found in urine and can form crystals in joints that cause gout.
