(n.) A constitutional disease, occurring by paroxysms. It consists in an inflammation of the fibrous and ligamentous parts of the joints, and almost always attacks first the great toe, next the smaller joints, after which it may attack the greater articulations. It is attended with various sympathetic phenomena, particularly in the digestive organs. It may also attack internal organs, as the stomach, the intestines, etc.
(n.) A disease of cornstalks. See Corn fly, under Corn.
(n.) Taste; relish.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 8 patients with gout and 11 patients with pseudogout synovial fluid and small tissue specimens could be obtained with the aid of the Parker-Pearson needle.
(2) Both patients are likely to be sporadic cases of familial nephropathy with gout, an autosomal dominant disease, due to a new mutation.
(3) Conversely, crystalline protein binding may be a critical factor in the pathogenesis of gout, and the presence of abnormal proteins in RA could protect against gout.
(4) Tissue degeneration in gout clearly follows (tophaceous) crystal deposition.
(5) Five of our 7 patients had a positive family history of tics, and 2 a confirmed family history of gout.
(6) A 30-year-old man had a recurrent painful calf swelling associated with gout that mimicked thrombophlebitis and possibly muscle tear.
(7) Sclerosed areas with scarce and plump villi as well as sometimes hyperplastic and polymorphous synovial cell layers could be demonstrated histologically in the tissue specimens of the needle biopsies in cases with gout.
(8) Significantly more treated patients than control subjects showed evidence of a high serum creatinine level, mild hypokalemia, and gout.
(9) A many-year investigation of 254 primary gout patients aged 21 to 78 was carried out to reveal characteristic features of a course of gout under present-day conditions.
(10) The history of saturnine gout is almost as old as civilization itself.
(11) Intra- as well as extracellular crystals could also be demonstrated with the aid of scanning electron microscopy in sediments of synovial fluid in gout and pseudogout.
(12) A study of the level of beta 2-microglobulin (beta 2-MG) in the blood serum and urine was conducted in 67 patients: 22 with chronic pyelonephritis, 13 with gout with renal lesion, 25 with chronic glomerulonephritis (5 without hyperuricemia, 20 with hyperuricemia) and 7 with amyloidosis accompanied mainly by renal lesion.
(13) Naproxen is a useful alternative agent for the treatment of acute gout.
(14) A 65-year-old man with gout and renal dysfunction had taken 1 mg of colchicine daily for 3 years.
(15) In 1988 Abbot could prove that among men, those afflicted by gout as compared to those without gout experienced a 60% excess of coronary heart disease.
(16) The authors presented the results of a 5-year follow-up of 50 gout patients who had been regularly (no less than 3-4 times a year) examined in outpatient clinics.
(17) A high prevalence of gout among workers of the mining industry and early age at the onset of disease suggest probable association of gout with some industrial factors (manganese, tungsten, molybdenum, bismuth).
(18) For the great majority of patients with uncomplicated hypertension, without a previous myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, diabetes mellitus or gout, thiazide diuretics appear to be both safe and effective antihypertensive agents.
(19) Ten years ago, we studied the clinical and radiographic manifestations of gout in 60 patients and described 3 patterns of disease.
(20) John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of Corn Flakes, also invented the sunbed, patenting his first device in 1896 – by royal appointment no less, as Edward VII apparently kept one at Windsor Castle for his gout.
Podagric
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Podagrical
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients with different types of podagric nephropathy were examined for 21 indicators of the functional activity of T and B lymphocytes and neutrophils.
(2) The greater incidence of podagra and podagric nephropathy over the recent decade may be related not to the changes in the nutrition pattern and hypodynamia but also, and possibly to a larger measure, with deterioration of the environmental conditions and alterations in radiation background.
(3) Prolonged systematic complex treatment of podagric nephropathy is medically and economically effective.
(4) The incidence of podagric nephropathy in different age groups was studied on a large populational material (41,452 persons over 30 years).
(5) In 122 patients with podagric nephropathy, deviations in urinalyses were recorded in 80 cases (65.5%).
(6) The possible mechanism of development of podagric heart failures is discussed.