Chem. Also urat. [a. F. urate: see UR-IC a. and -ATE1 1 c.] A salt produced by the action of uric acid on a base.
1800. trans. Lagrange’s Chem., II. 404. The urate of potash may be decomposed by the muriatic acid.
1811. Henry, in Manchester Soc. Mem. (1813), II. 403. I have examined the properties of each individual urate. Ibid. (1826), Elem. Chem., II. 462. Uric acid, urate of ammonia, and phosphate of lime.
1844. G. Bird, Urin. Deposits, 88. Uric acid and urates may occur in great abundance in the urine.
1869. Tanner, Clin. Med. (ed. 2), 330. Being made up of urates of lime, magnesia, soda.
attrib. 1877. Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., vii. 441. The granules … probably consist of urate of ammonia (Kölliker). Hence the cells of the layer which contain them are termed by Schulze the ‘urate cells.’
1886. Buck’s Handbk. Med. Sci., II. 258/2. Urate concretions … are especially common as renal calculi in children.
1890. F. Taylor, Man. Pract. Med. (1891), 924. Urate deposits in gout.
