URATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does urate mean? 

• URATE (noun)
  The noun URATE has 1 sense:

1. a salt of uric acid

  Familiarity information: URATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• URATE (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)

 Context examples 

The determination of the amount of monosodium urate crystals present in a sample.

(Monosodium Urate Crystal Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

A measurement of the monosodium urate crystals present in a biological specimen.

(Monosodium Urate Crystal Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Also called rasburicase and recombinant urate oxidase.

(Elitek, NCI Dictionary)

This leads to an inhibition of migration of leukocytes and other inflammatory cells, thereby reducing the inflammatory response to deposited urate crystals.

(Colchicine, NCI Thesaurus)

A measurement of the acid urate crystals present in a biological specimen.

(Acid Urate Crystal Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Hereditary metabolic disorder characterized by recurrent acute arthritis, hyperuricemia and deposition of sodium urate in and around the joints, sometimes with formation of uric acid calculi.

(Gout, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A measurement of the amorphous (Note: phosphate or urate, depending on pH) crystals present in a biological specimen.

(Amorphous Crystal Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The determination of the amount of amorphous urate crystals present in a sample.

(Amorphous Urate Crystals Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

The determination of the amount of acid urate crystals present in a sample.

(Acid Urate Crystal Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

A measurement of the amorphous urate crystals in a biological specimen.

(Amorphous Urate Crystals Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)