Uric Acid Definition

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noun
A white, odorless, crystalline substance, C5H4N4O3, found in urine, in the excreta of birds and reptiles, etc.: it is slightly soluble in water.
Webster's New World

(chemistry) A bicyclic heterocyclic phenolic compound, formed in the body by the metabolism of protein and excreted in the urine (in avian faeces)

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Uric Acid Sentence Examples

  • It is used in medicine on account of the high solubility of its salt with uric acid.

  • They also hinder the formation of uric acid calculi.

  • Papers published in 1776 were concerned with quartz, alum and clay and with the analysis of calculus vesicae from which for the first time he obtained uric acid.

  • One of the earliest, if not the earliest, was the investigation, published in 1830, which proved the polymerism of cyanic and cyanuric acid, but the most famous were those on the oil of bitter almonds (benzaldehyde) and the radicle benzoyl (1832), and on uric acid (1837), which are of fundamental importance in the history of organic chemistry.

  • It is closely allied to theobromine, the alkaloid of cocoa, and also to uric acid.

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