gout

(Englisch)

Noun

1. (uncountable) An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints.
2. (countable, uncountable, usually) A drop; a spurt or splotch.
3. (countable, rare, uncountable) A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.

Verb

To spurt.

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ɡaʊt/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: goute

Verwandt mit Spanisch: gota

In summary

From Middle English goute, from Old French gote, gute, from Latin gutta (“drop”). Compare Spanish gota (“drop, droplet”). Doublet of goutte, gutta, and gutter.
The sense shift derived from humorism and "the notion of the 'dropping' of a morbid material from the blood in and around the joints".

Konzepte

Gicht

Hyperuricämie

Tophus

entzündliche Knotenbildung

Arthritis urica

Zipperlein

Synonyme

podagra

gouty arthritis

urarthritis

arthritis

rheumatism

melancholy

gout in the feet

paralysis

spavin

hyperuricaemia

tophus

Übersetzungen

goutte

💧

gotta

gota

gota

jicht

ποδάγρα

podagra

podagra

gota

artrite

αρθρίτιδα

gutta

poagre

dna

quiragra