Path. [f. as prec. + -OSIS.] A morbid condition of health resulting from the deposit of urates in the tissues or fluids of the body.
1890. Sir W. Roberts, in Lancet, 29 Nov., 1162/1. He ventured to suggest that uratic precipitation … should be known by the name of ‘uratosis.’
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., II. 981. He [Sir Wm. Roberts] believes that both the gouty diathesis and lead poisoning have the same tendency (for which he has coined the word ‘uratosis’) to precipitate crystalline urates in the tissues or fluids of the body. Ibid., III. 167. Uratosis cannot occur, so far as is known, without coexisting uratæmia.
