gout

(Anglais)

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.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɡaʊt/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: goute

Appartenant à espagnol: 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".

Concepts

goutte

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podagre

goute

hyperuricémie

tophus

chiragre

arthrite goutteuse

chirgre

Synonymes

podagra

gouty arthritis

urarthritis

arthritis

rheumatism

melancholy

gout in the feet

paralysis

spavin

hyperuricaemia

tophus

Traductions

gotta

Gicht

gota

gota

jicht

ποδάγρα

αρθρίτιδα

gota

gutta

podagra

artrite

podagra

poagre

dna

quiragra