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uricosuric

uricosuric adjective: pertaining to gout suppressants that act directly on the renal tubule to increase the excretion of uric acid, thus reducing its concentrations in plasma.

Adjective

uricosuric (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to gout suppressants that act directly on the renal tubule to increase the excretion of uric acid, thus reducing its concentrations in plasma.
    • The relation of chemical constitution to the effect on the uric acid excretion, the uricosuric action, of cinchophen was first studied by Niccolaier and Dohrn (1908).1933, W.F. von Oettingen, chapter 5, in The Therapeutic Agents of the Quinoline Group, Cinchophen, Plasmoquine, Nupercaine, Quinine and Acridine Dyes; the Relation between their Chemical Constitution...
    • If the contention of Folin and Lyman and of Denis as to the identity of the uricosuric activity of cinchophen and the salicylates is correct, the same alterations in uric acid excretion should occur when the latter is administered after section of renal nerves as when cinchophen is given.1934 December, M.G. Gray with G.P. Grabfield, “Studies on the denervated kidney II. The action of sodium salicylate on the uric acid, allantoin, sodium chloride and total nitrogen excretion in dogs”...

Noun

uricosuric (plural uricosurics)

  1. Any medicine of this kind.

uricosuric meaning in Tamil

uricosuric in Tamil

யூரிசுநீர்ப்பெருக்கு

Forms of uricosuric

pluraluricosurics

Origin of uricosuric

From uricosuria + -ic.

Questions about uricosuric

What does uricosuric mean?
Uricosuric means pertaining to gout suppressants that act directly on the renal tubule to increase the excretion of uric acid, thus reducing its concentrations in plasma.
What is uricosuric in Tamil?
Uricosuric in Tamil is யூரிசுநீர்ப்பெருக்கு. See Uricosuric meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is uricosuric?
Uricosuric can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near uricosuric in the dictionary

  1. uricolytic
  2. Uriconian
  3. uricostatic
  4. uricostatics
  5. uricosuria
  6. uricosuric
  7. uricosurics
  8. uricotelic
  9. uricotelism
  10. uricotely
  11. uridine

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