URIC


Meaning of URIC in English

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.

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