gout

(gowt). A painful constitutional or diathetic disease, acute or chronic, with joint inflammation and chalky deposits, and an increase of uric acid in the blood. An attack of gout usually comes on suddenly in the night, and is marked by severe pain and intl am mat i on of the great toe and by febrile symptoms, the symptoms tending to disappear in the morning, but returning at night. Other joints may become involved, especally the small joints of the extremities. The causation of gout is attributed to exce of uric acid and urates in the blood. It is brought on by exce in food and sweet wines. abarg., that which does not affect the joints. articular g., gout affecting the joints. c Ε. Same as fophaceous g. irregular g. as abarticular g. latent g., ed g., lithemia without the typical features of gout. lead-g., gout ascribed to lead-poisoning. misplaced g., retrocedent g., gout in which the arthritic symptoms have disappeared and are followed by severe constitutional disturbances. poor-man’s g., gout ascribed to hard work, exposure, ill feeding, and exce in the use of malt liquors. re; @., articular gout. retrocedent g., gout in which the joint symptoms suddenly abate, being replaced by cerebral, cardiac, and gastric disturbances. rheumatic +, a name formerly employed for what is now own as atrophic arthritis, on the erroneous supposition that the disease was gouty in origin. atrophic arthritis, under arthritis. sat eg., gout due to lead-poisoning. tophaceous g., gout in which there are tophi or chalky deposits of sodium urate.