uricosuric

1. 1.

   acting to increase the excretion of uric acid in the urine

Questions about uricosuric

What does uricosuric mean?

uricosuric means "acting to increase the excretion of uric acid in the urine".

How many syllables are in uricosuric?

uricosuric has 5 syllables and divides as u-ri-co-su-ric under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is uricosuric a common word?

uricosuric 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.