Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
tophus .
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- noun Plural form of
tophus .
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Examples
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In tophaceous gout (which is marked by frequent recurrence), uric acid crystal deposits - called tophi - show up in the different tissues near the joints.
Hyperuricemia is Gout: Learning about Its Causes and Complexities 2007
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These nodular concretions are called tophi or chalkstones.
The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan
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Symptoms include severe pain in the joints that develop within a few hours, swelling and warmth around the joint, red and shiny skin, fever and firm, white lumps beneath the skin called tophi (if you have had gout for some time).
unknown title 2009
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Cristales en los oídos puedan formar dolorosos nódulos llamados "tophi".
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Bristol — a common prostitute, sir, who had got all the worst symptoms of the disorder; such as nodi, tophi, and gummata, verruca, cristoe Galli, and a serpiginous eruption, or rather a pocky itch all over her body.
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The hyperuricemia of gout produces deposits of small crystals of uric acid in joints which results in extreme pain, or large deposits, tophi, which results in gouty arthritis and restricted joint movement.
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Qui mæstos hyacinthos, et picti [Greek: anthea] tophi
Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II Henry Vaughan 1658
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The treatment appears safe and efficacious, reducing the number of gout tophi and the number of swollen joints and improving pain and health-related quality of life.
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The treatment appears safe and efficacious, reducing the number of gout tophi and the number of swollen joints and improving pain and health-related quality of life.
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page Rockford Coscia 2010
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"There is good evidence that achieving serum urate levels to less than 6 mg/dl results in freedom from acute gout attacks, and shrinkage and eventual disappearance of tophi (deposits of monosodium urate crystals in people with longstanding high levels of uric acid in the blood)," he said.
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