urarthritis

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

   Synonymsgoutgouty arthritis

   Broaderarthritis

Other forms of urarthritis

plural

urarthritises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about urarthritis

What does urarthritis mean?

urarthritis 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".

How many syllables are in urarthritis?

urarthritis has 4 syllables: u-rar-thri-tis. The stress falls on "rar".

What is another word for urarthritis?

Close synonyms include gout, gouty arthritis. 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 urarthritis a common word?

urarthritis 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.