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GOUT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A painful inflammation of the big toe and foot caused by defects in uric acid metabolism resulting in deposits of the acid and its salts in the blood and joints
Synonyms:
gout; gouty arthritis; urarthritis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("gout" is a kind of...):
arthritis (inflammation of a joint or joints)
Derivation:
gouty (suffering from gout)
Context examples:
Gout is a painful type of arthritis that happens when too much uric acid builds up in the body.
(Arthritis, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)
Bursitis may be caused by long-term overuse, trauma, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, or infection.
(Bursitis, NCI Dictionary)
Whenever he had a touch of his old colicky gout, he said it did him more good than any thing else in the world.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
An alkaloid isolated from Colchicum autumnale with anti-gout and anti-inflammatory activities.
(Colchicine, NCI Thesaurus)
Yes, he was his heir, and the old boy is nearly eighty—cram full of gout, too.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I lived with them, waiting to be put out in the world, until his gout unfortunately flew to his stomach—and so he died, and so she married a young man, and so I wasn't provided for.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Poor old John, I have a great regard for him; he was clerk to my poor father twenty-seven years; and now, poor old man, he is bed-ridden, and very poorly with the rheumatic gout in his joints—I must go and see him to-day; and so will Jane, I am sure, if she gets out at all.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The drug colchicine, used to treat the arthritic condition gout, could potentially reduce complications accompanying metabolic syndrome, a combination of high blood pressure, high blood sugar and other conditions that increase the risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health.
(Gout treatment may help prevent obesity-related type 2 diabetes, National Institutes of Health)
I told him, “that in the kingdom of Tribnia, by the natives called Langdon, where I had sojourned some time in my travels, the bulk of the people consist in a manner wholly of discoverers, witnesses, informers, accusers, prosecutors, evidences, swearers, together with their several subservient and subaltern instruments, all under the colours, the conduct, and the pay of ministers of state, and their deputies. The plots, in that kingdom, are usually the workmanship of those persons who desire to raise their own characters of profound politicians; to restore new vigour to a crazy administration; to stifle or divert general discontents; to fill their coffers with forfeitures; and raise, or sink the opinion of public credit, as either shall best answer their private advantage. It is first agreed and settled among them, what suspected persons shall be accused of a plot; then, effectual care is taken to secure all their letters and papers, and put the owners in chains. These papers are delivered to a set of artists, very dexterous in finding out the mysterious meanings of words, syllables, and letters: for instance, they can discover a close stool, to signify a privy council; a flock of geese, a senate; a lame dog, an invader; the plague, a standing army; a buzzard, a prime minister; the gout, a high priest; a gibbet, a secretary of state; a chamber pot, a committee of grandees; a sieve, a court lady; a broom, a revolution; a mouse-trap, an employment; a bottomless pit, a treasury; a sink, a court; a cap and bells, a favourite; a broken reed, a court of justice; an empty tun, a general; a running sore, the administration.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Pseudogout has similar symptoms and is sometimes confused with gout.
(Gout, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)
