urate

[ yoor-eyt ]

noun

, Chemistry.

1. a salt of uric acid.

urate

/ ˈjʊəreɪt; jʊˈrætɪk /

noun

1. any salt or ester of uric acid

Derived Forms

• uratic, adjective

Other Words From

• u·rat·ic [y, oo, -, rat, -ik], adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of urate¹

First recorded in 1790–1800; ur(ic acid) + -ate ²

Example Sentences

Rarely, sodium urate occurs in crystalline form—slender prisms, arranged in fan- or sheaf-like structures (Fig. 32).

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It is possible—as in urate infarcts of infants—for urates to be molded into cylindric bodies within the renal tubules.

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The sediment usually contains abundant amorphous phosphates and crystals of triple phosphate and ammonium urate.

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Compare the terrestrial octopus, which makes armor-plating out of calcium urate instead of excreting urea or uric acid.

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Now dissolve the pure urate by washing it through the filter with a few cubic centimeters of the special nitric acid.

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