hyperuricemia

English

Alternative forms

• hyperuricaemia (UK)

Etymology

From hyper- +‎ uric +‎ -emia.

Noun

hyperuricemia (usually uncountable, plural hyperuricemias)

1. An abnormally high level of uric acid in one's blood.
   • 2020 November 13, Ligaya Mishan, “Once the Disease of Gluttonous Aristocrats, Gout Is Now Tormenting the Masses”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     One victim, who asked to be nameless, was perplexed by his fate, given his fairly temperate habits, until he read that hyperuricemia had been found in a small number of patients (less than 2 percent) in clinical trials of Viagra, approved for erectile dysfunction in 1998 but also used off-book as a recreational drug for sexual enhancement.

Derived terms

• hyperuricemic

Translations

high level of uric acid

Catalan: hiperuricèmia f Chinese: Mandarin: 高尿酸血症 (gāoniàosuānxuèzhèng) Dutch: hyperurikemie (nl) f Finnish: hyperurikemia French: hyperuricémie (fr) f Italian: iperuricemia (it) f Portuguese: hiperuricemia f Spanish: hiperuricemia f

Further reading

• hyperuricemia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia