hyperuricemia

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From hyper- +‎ uric +‎ -emia.

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hyperuricemia (usually uncountable, plural hyperuricemias)

  1. An abnormally high level of uric acid in one's blood.
    • 2020 November 13, Ligaya Mishan, “Once the Disease of Gluttonous Aristocrats, Gout Is Now Tormenting the Masses”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
      One victim, who asked to be nameless, was perplexed by his fate, given his fairly temperate habits, until he read that hyperuricemia had been found in a small number of patients (less than 2 percent) in clinical trials of Viagra, approved for erectile dysfunction in 1998 but also used off-book as a recreational drug for sexual enhancement.

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