The Collaborative International Dictionary
Uric \U"ric\, a. [Gr. ? urine: cf. F. urique. See Urine.] (Physiol. Chem.) Of or pertaining to urine; obtained from urine; as, uric acid.
Uric acid, a crystalline body, present in small quantity in the urine of man and most mammals. Combined in the form of urate of ammonia, it is the chief constituent of the urine of birds and reptiles, forming the white part. Traces of it are also found in the various organs of the body. It is likewise a common constituent, either as the free acid or as a urate, of urinary or renal calculi and of the so-called gouty concretions. From acid urines, uric acid is frequently deposited, on standing in a cool place, in the form of a reddish yellow sediment, nearly always crystalline. Chemically, it is composed of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen, C5H4N4O3, and by decomposition yields urea, among other products. It can be made synthetically by heating together urea and glycocoll. It was formerly called also lithic acid, in allusion to its occurrence in stone, or calculus.
Wiktionary
n. (context chemistry English) a bicyclic heterocyclic phenolic compound, formed in the body by the metabolism of protein and excreted in the urine (or in avian faeces)
WordNet
n. a white tasteless odorless crystalline product of protein metabolism; found in the blood and urine
Wikipedia
Uric acid is a heterocyclic compound of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen with the formula CHNO. It forms ions and salts known as urates and acid urates, such as ammonium acid urate. Uric acid is a product of the metabolic breakdown of purine nucleotides. High blood concentrations of uric acid can lead to gout and are associated with other medical conditions including diabetes and the formation of ammonium acid urate kidney stones.
Usage examples of "uric acid".
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’.
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—.
Then the flying cave-creatures that the humans called mynocks returned from the deeper caverns to their perches, hissing, squawking, their droppings, rich in nitrates and concentrated uric acid, falling to add to the deep layers already forming the cave floor: food for the vermiforms and other scavengers.