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Meaning of GOUTY

Pronunciation:  'gawtee

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  suffering from gout
 
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 Synonyms: ill, sick
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Gout"y\, a.
1. Diseased with, or subject to, the gout; as, a gouty
   person; a gouty joint.
2. Pertaining to the gout. ``Gouty matter.'' --Blackmore.
3. Swollen, as if from gout. --Derham.
4. Boggy; as, gouty land. [Obs.] --Spenser.
{Gouty bronchitis}, bronchitis arising as a secondary disease
   during the progress of gout.
{Gouty concretions}, calculi (urate of sodium) formed in the
   joints, kidneys, etc., of sufferers from gout.
{Gouty kidney}, an affection occurring during the progress of
   gout, the kidney shriveling and containing concretions of
   urate of sodium.
 

 

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