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triketopurine (medicine)


triketopurine -->
uric acid
<biochemistry> The final product of nitrogenous excretion in animals that require to conserve water, such as terrestrial insects or have limited storage space, such as birds and their eggs. Uric acid has very low water solubility and crystals may be deposited in, for example: butterflies wings to impart irridescence.

Uric acid, a crystalline body, present in small quantity in the urine of man and most mammals. Combined in the form of urate of ammonia, it is the chief constituent of the urine of birds and reptiles, forming the white part. Traces of it are also found in the various organs of the body. It is likewise a common constituent, either as the free acid or as a urate, of urinary or renal calculi and of the so-called gouty concretions. From acid urines, uric acid is frequently deposited, on standing in a cool place, in the form of a reddish yellow sediment, nearly always crystalline. Chemically, it is composed of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen, and by decomposition yields urea, among Other products. It can be made synthetically by heating together urea and glycocoll.

It was formerly called also lithic acid, in allusion to its occurrence in stone, or calculus.

See: tophus.

Structure: C5H4N4O3

Source: Websters Dictionary


keelson (iou)



keelson noun. , (orig.) kelswayn & Other vars. ME.
[Rel. to and perh. from Low German kielswin, from kiel KEEL noun1 + (prob.) swin SWINE, used, like cat, dog, horse, for a timber.]
Nautical. A lengthwise timber or metal structure running internally along the bottom of a ship, parallel with and bolted to the keel, fastening the floor timbers or plating and the keel together. ME.
b. A structure in the hull of a flying-boat or the float of a seaplane, analogous to the keelson of a ship's hull. E20.
= KEEL noun1 1. rare. M19.