How to use gout in a sentence
17 example sentences · noun, verb
Gout means an extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints. Example: “The deposition of urate crystals in the joints leads to gout.”
Examples of gout by meaning
nounAn extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the...
- Once gout was confined largely to Western civilization (with some outliers, like the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan); now its ravages are global.2020 November 13, Ligaya Mishan, “Once the Disease of Gluttonous Aristocrats, Gout Is Now Tormenting the Masses”, in The New York Times...
nounA drop; a spurt or splotch.
- Another blow sent gouts of blood flying, along with gobbets of flesh.2002, Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, Dave Freer, The Shadow of the Lion
- McInnis staggered back and to his feet, the chair flying aside, as a gout of blood spurted from the open wound.2024 September 28, HarryBlank, “Not Ready for Prime Time”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 29 Sep 2024
verbTo spurt.
- Dark blood gouts from the creature's brisket.2001, Stephen King, Peter Straub, Black House
More sentences with gout
- The deposition of urate crystals in the joints leads to gout.From the entry urate
- Gout and rheumatism are possible causes of podalgia.From the entry podalgia
- The use of colchicine for gout is FDA approved, whereas the use of colchicine for pericarditis is off label (but is widely respected).From the entry off label
- Conversely the TT-genotype associated with reduced levels of TLR4 mRNA in PBMCs from people with intercritical gout.2016 January 26, “The Toll-Like Receptor 4 (TLR4) Variant rs2149356 and Risk of Gout in European and Polynesian Sample Sets”, in PLOS ONE…. From the entry intercritical
- Rex-like swagger, then situates the reminiscence in a present fraught with "heart disease and gout." "2009 February 17, “CD REVIEWS”, in Toronto Star. From the entry groover
- He was still laid up in bed with boils and gout when the committee first met.2003 July 7, Walter Isaacson, “How They Chose These Words”, in Time. From the entry laid up
- Frock-coated plutocrats started from it when they took their gout to Vichy, or Carlsbad.1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 356, about Blackfriars station, London. From the entry frock-coated
- There were no longer those disfiguring gouts of clay which had produced dread in me by bemonstering the features.1980, Barry Unsworth, Pascali’s Island, New York: Norton, published 1997, page 163. From the entry bemonster
- And blood was on the roof, and great gouts of blood on the walls and on the cornice of my bed.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 18. From the entry cornice
- The stem is used for bilious conditions; ash for discharges and wounds, sapraemia in Malaya; infusion of straw for dysentery, gout, and rheumatism.1993, James A. Duke, CRC Handbook of Alternative Cash Crops, →ISBN, page 342. From the entry sapraemia
- A decoction of ale hoof and a good wine taken over a period of time will ease sciatica, hip gout, or arthritic hands and knees.1992, Alma R. Hutchens, A handbook of native American healing herbs, page 1. From the entry ale-hoof
- They focus half of their cataplexis on Cutbeard's body, which they hope will develop blotches and gout, and the other half on the objects of his trade.2016, E. Decamp, Civic and Medical Worlds in Early Modern England: Performing Barbery and Surgery, page 41. From the entry cataplexis
- Book VI deals with surgery, including an account of tracheotomy, and a final long book is taken up with drugs, including the use of colchicum for gout.1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 87. From the entry colchicum
Meaning of gout
- noun An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints.
- noun A drop; a spurt or splotch.
- noun A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.
Questions about gout in a sentence
- How do you use gout in a sentence?
- Gout is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The deposition of urate crystals in the joints leads to gout.”
- What is a short sentence with gout?
- “Dark blood gouts from the creature's brisket.”
- What does gout mean?
- Gout means an extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints.
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