gout

gout (go̵ut)

noun

a hereditary form of recurrent, acute arthritis with swelling and severe pain, resulting from a disturbance of uric acid metabolism and characterized by an excess of uric acid in the blood and deposits of uric acid salts, usually in the joints of the feet and hands, esp. in the big toe
a large splash, clot, glob, etc.

Etymology: ME goute < OFr, gout, lit., a drop < L gutta, a drop: orig. attributed to a discharge of drops of humors

Converse of object

diagnose: The doctor also may find it helpful to examine chalky, sodium urate deposits ( tophi ) around joints to diagnose gout.
treat: It is also diuretic and speeds the elimination of toxins, which makes it valuable for treating gout.
develop: Over the course of the study 730 men developed gout.
cause: What causes gout What could be causing my numbness?
get: Risk factors There are certain factors that can affect your likelihood of getting gout.
have: At the outset, none of the men had gout.

Adjective modifier

tophaceous: How should we treat tophaceous gout in patients with allopurinol hypersensitivity?
acute: The results of the first controlled study in acute gout.
chronic: A pathogenic approach to the treatment of primary chronic gout.
great: It makes breathing hard and some do cough great gouts of blood from the lungs.
severe: Patients matched at baseline, except etodolac group had more severe gout.
primary: A pathogenic approach to the treatment of primary chronic gout.

Modifies a noun

attack: You should start treatment within 24 hours of your gout attack.
pain: I suppose it might be because some of us have had gout pains.
patient: Most gout patients have inherited a genetic condition that inhibits the excretion of uric acid.
sufferer: The effects of alcoholic beverages on urate metabolism in gout sufferers.

Noun used with modifier

son: As they say in Germany, ' chacun a son gout ' .

Possessives

primary: The young male with ' primary ' gout is frequently overweight, a heavy beer drinker, with no family history of renal disease.

Preposition: of

blood: A gout of blood flooded over the golden fur.
flame: It started as a rumble, and then grew to a roar as the engines burst into life with a gout of flame.

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