gouty arthritis

1. 1.

   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

   Synonymsgouturarthritis

   Broaderarthritis

Questions about gouty arthritis

What does gouty arthritis mean?

gouty arthritis means "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".

What is another word for gouty arthritis?

Close synonyms include gout, urarthritis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gouty arthritis a common word?

gouty arthritis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.