(a.) Diseased with, or subject to, the gout; as, a gouty person; a gouty joint.
(a.) Pertaining to the gout.
(a.) Swollen, as if from gout.
(a.) Boggy; as, gouty land.
Example Sentences:
(1) Low density lipoprotein (LDL) is the major plasma inhibitor of neutrophil oxidative and lytic responses to monosodium urate crystals and may function to modulate acute gouty inflammation.
(2) Thus, acute gouty arthritis is now recognized as an example of "crystal induced" synovitis.
(3) By the mid 20th century, however, the apparent decline of the gout in Europe and North America and the breakup of the gouty diathesis in those lands had been more than compensated by their large-scale reappearance in the Maori and in other indigenous inhabitants of the Pacific Basin who, at first sight, appeared to have become one large gouty family.
(4) Fifteen cases of acute gouty bursitis were seen among 136 crystal-proved cases of gout.
(5) Tenoxicam administered orally, rectally or parenterally is an effective analgesic and anti-inflammatory agent for the symptomatic treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and various rheumatic conditions such as tendinitis, bursitis, sciatica, back pain and gouty arthritis.
(6) The authors emphasize that the possibility of a septic arthritis should always be considered in the gouty patient, and not only in the elderly, as stressed in the literature, but also in younger patients.
(7) Many patients have gouty symptoms, especially after treatment with Busulfan, and many have an unexplained hemorrhagic tendency, making major operations a risk.
(8) Synovial fluids from 75 patients were analyzed, comprising the following disease groups: i) rheumatoid arthritis (n = 42), ii) osteoarthritis (n = 20), iii) gouty arthritis (n = 5), and iv) reactive arthritis (Reiter's disease, n = 8).
(9) One patient did not take any medical treatment and died suddenly when he was 19 years old, but showed no gouty signs.
(10) This latter observation raises doubts about the postulated physiological role of LDL in terminating the acute gouty attack.
(11) A double-blind study was carried out to compare the effects of ketoprofen and phenylbutazone in acute gouty arthritis.
(12) This suggests that the amount of LDL coating intraarticular urate crystals could vary during the course of a gouty paroxysm.
(13) In the case of two gouty groups divided according to the existence of gouty heredity, tophi or renal impairment, adenosine deaminase and inosine phosphorylase activity in the two groups were not significantly different.
(14) The data suggest an increase in the rate of purine turnover in aging gouty fibroblasts compared with normal fibroblasts.
(15) The case emphasized that patients with this deficiency may escape diagnosis during childhood and that internists should consider the diagnosis in adolescents or young adults with acute gouty arthritis or tophaceous gout.
(16) A rare case of gouty tophus localized to the temporomandibular joint is reported on by which alimentary troubles were caused.
(17) Monosodium urate (MSU)-induced synovitis in the dog's stifle (knee joint) is similar to an acute gouty attack in man in which a loss of function of the joint correlates with massive influx of neutrophils and the release of an assortment of inflammatory mediators (e.g.
(18) These findings suggest that the association of membranous nephropathy should be considered in patients with gout having moderate to severe proteinuria and that RTE may be involved in the pathogenesis of subepithelial deposits in gouty membranous nephropathy.
(19) (3) Synovial fluid from one gouty patient accelerated urate nucleation, while that from one rheumatoid patient inhibited nucleation.
(20) Striking elevations were also present in 2 patients who had acute gouty arthritis.
Gruff
Definition:
(superl.) Of a rough or stern manner, voice, or countenance; sour; surly; severe; harsh.
Example Sentences:
(1) A gruff intellectual alternately nicknamed “Mad Dog” and “the warrior monk,” Mattis is deeply respected in much of the foreign policy establishment, despite notably clashing with the Obama administration over his more hawkish views on Iran.
(2) Ricky Gervais: 'It’s always about people, it’s always about ego' Read more Take the film’s opening minute, in which gruff US comedian Jim Norton cameos as an absurdly camp male prostitute eager to offer radio journalist Frank Bonneville (Eric Bana) a “freebie”.
(3) I still am.” For many Republican primary voters, the question is whether the unassuming if somewhat gruff Paul – who insisted on no mayo in the ham and cheese sandwich he ordered for lunch – ever was particularly interesting, or if voters were only attracted to the idiosyncratic, 21st-century libertarianism he expounds.
(4) At the booth in between the never-was of Windsor and the has-been of Detroit, the officer I happened to draw had a gruff belly and the mysterious air of intentional inscrutability, like a troll under a bridge in a fairytale.
(5) The then manager was Walter Smith, a gruff but dignified Scot who had enjoyed considerable success at Rangers a decade earlier.
(6) Ingham, whose gruffness camouflages an intellect of silken agility, was addressing the specific question of his boss’s public image, and asking, by implication, if the Iron Lady could – well – melt, just a little.
(7) The film critic, who says Statham's name with an approximation of his low, gruff cockney, likes the chance the actor took with Hummingbird and also admires his 2011 film Blitz , co-starring Paddy Considine.
(8) Many had come for the first time to witness the much-vaunted oratorical skills of France’s youngest MP – and to see how she compared to her grandfather, the gruff former paratrooper Jean-Marie Le Pen, who co-founded the Front National in 1972 and led it to become the most successful far-right party in western Europe.
(9) Get the metal pan!” Martin jokes, aping the Hollywood convention of a gruff doctor dropping each slug into a brass surgical tray with a solid “plink”.
(10) Rajapaksa's folksy, gruff bonhomie and his canny direction of development funds to the countryside has paid dividends at successive polls.
(11) His manner was often gruff and rude, even to those he liked: Isabella Blow, (pictured right with McQueen) who was broke when she bought his entire first collection and had to pay for it in installments, told me once how he used to march her to the cashpoint every week to get £50 out.
(12) Many of them were adapted for television or made into feature films; the Wexford books in particular were an enormous success on TV, with the actor George Baker playing Wexford as a big, gruff, rural policeman, solving crime in the fictional Sussex town of Kingsmarkham.
(13) But his less enthusiastic answer about Bannon comes amid reports of infighting in the Trump White House, all of which place the gruff, irascible Bannon at the center.
(14) Jenkins is small, but she has a surprisingly gruff voice, rising to a growl when she is annoyed.
(15) "I'm extremely well," he says with jovial gruffness.
(16) Luther starts in the UK on Tuesday, 9pm, BBC1 LUTHER: THE SERIES THREE LINEUP John Luther Gruff of voice, red of eye, natty of coat, the maverick DCI is good at solving crime, bad at life.
(17) His voice sounded gruff, his eyes still fixed on my breasts as he continued the fierce stroking and caressing.
(18) The White House did not announce the meeting until late on Thursday, prompting a gruff complaint from Beijing, in what has become something of a diplomatic ritual whenever Obama meets the exiled Buddhist monk.
(19) Tens of thousands of west of Scotland men derived a gruff pride in working hard for their money and providing food and shelter for their families.
(20) The show has made a star of one year 9 boy, 13-year-old Ryan Ward, a gruff-voiced, latte-drinking philosopher who wants to be a firefighter, a police officer or an actor.