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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
uric
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Abnormalities it, urinary but not intestinal excretion of uric acid may produce clinically recognizable disorders of urate metabolism.
▪ After several months of therapy with a uricosuric agent, the tissue stores are dePleted and urinary uric acid returns to normal.
▪ Birds excrete uric acid rather than urea because it is an insoluble solid.
▪ Dietary purine intake may provide a significant source of uric acid.
▪ Essential hypertension is often associated with an augmented proximal reabsorption of sodium and uric acid.
▪ Thus, alterations of either uric acid filtration, reabsorption or secretion may result in clinical disorders.
▪ Uricosuric agents generally do not lower uric acid levels below the normal range.
▪ Xanthinuria is a rare hereditary deficiency of xanthine oxidase, which results in hypouricemia and diminished urinary uric acid excretion.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
uric

Pyrotritartaric \Pyr`o*tri`tar*tar"ic\, a. [Pyro- + tri- + tartaric.] (Chem.) Designating an acid which is more commonly called uric acid.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
uric

"pertaining to or obtained from urine," 1797, from French urique, from urine (see urine). Uric acid attested from 1800.

Wiktionary
uric

a. Pertaining to, contained in, or obtained from urine.

WordNet
uric

adj. in or relating to or obtained from urine; "uric acid"

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Sugars, acetone bodies, creatine, nitrogenous compounds, haemoglobin, myoglobin, amino acids and metabolites, uric acid, urea, urobilinogen and coproporphyrins, bile pigments, minerals, fats, and of course a great variety of psychotropic drugs: certainly all of the ones proscribed by the US Federal Bureau of Narcotics.

However, they noted that the elevated alkaline phosphatase and elevated uric acid were unexplained.

The two prominent varieties are the red, containing uric acid, and the white, or phosphatic, gravel.

These organs then, in part, perform the function of the liver, and hence unnatural activity is required of them, and the secreting of such substances as uric acid, which precipitates readily and gives rise to severe irritation of the urinary canal.

This quantity usually holds in solution about one ounce of urea, and ten or twelve grains of uric acid.

These organs then, in part, perform the function of the liver, and hence unnatural activity is required of them, and the secreting of such substances as uric acid, which precipitates readily and gives rise to severe irritation of the urinary canal.

Urine contains about 4 per cent solids - urea, common salt, phosphates, sulphates, potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, uric acid, ammonia etc.

You will see that the uric flow velocity will increase as the candiru makes its way upstream, inside you.

O'Connor, and the dates those tests were first described in clinically practi­cal terms: X ray: chest and abdomen (1905-15) White cell count (about 1895) Serum acetone (1928) Amylase (1948) Calcium (1931) Phosphorus (1925) SCOT (1955) LDH (1956) CPK (1961) John O'Connor 45 Aldolase (1949) Lipase (1934) CSF protein (1931) CSF sugar (1932) Blood sugar (1932) Bilirubin (1937) Serum albumin/globulin (1923-38) Electrolytes (1941-6) Electrocardiogram (about 1915) Prothrombin time (1940) Blood pH (1924-57) Blood gases (1957) Protein-bound iodine (1948) Alkaline phosphatase (1933) Watson-Schwartz (1941) Creatinine (1933) Uric acid (1933) If one were to graph these tests, and others com­monly used, against the total time course of med­ical history, one would see a flat line for more than two thousand years, followed by a slight rise be­ginning about 1850, and then an ever-sharper rise to the present time.

Water, ammonia, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, uric acid, creatinine, creatine, urea, phosphorus, magnesium-the list ran on.

They were images of his power which came to him from far away and increased the bitterness over how much the brine of his power had been watered down since it hadn't even been of any use to conjure up the evil arts of an eclipse, he was shaken by a thread of black bile at the domino table across from the frozen realm of General Rodrigo de Aguilar who was the only man of arms in whom he had confided his life since uric acid had crystallized the joints of the angel with the machete, and yet he wondered if so much confidence and so much authority delegated to one single person might not have been the cause of his misfortune, if it wasn't my lifetime comrade who had turned him into an ox by trying to shear him of his natural fleece of a back-lands leader and convert him into a palace .

They were images of his power which came to him from far away and increased the bitterness over how much the brine of his power had been watered down since it hadn't even been of any use to conjure up the evil arts of an eclipse, he was shaken by a thread of black bile at the domino table across from the frozen realm of General Rodrigo de Aguilar who was the only man of arms in whom he had confided his life since uric acid had crystallized the joints of the angel with the machete, and yet he wondered if so much confidence and so much authority delegated to one single person might not have been the cause of his misfortune, if it wasn't my lifetime comrade who had turned him into an ox by trying to shear him of his natural fleece of a back-lands leader and convert him into a palace invalid incapable of thinking up an order that hadn't already been carried out ahead of time, by the unhealthy invention of showing in public a face that wasn .

Cultures without soap, Tyler says, they used their urine and the urine of their dogs to wash their clothes and hair because of the uric acid and ammonia.

Filters still functioning, uric acid level high but not over tolerance--I think it's all right, Milady.

Filters still functioning, uric acid level high but not over tolerance--I think it’.