- gouty pearl
- a sodium urate concretion on the cartilage of the ear in persons with gout.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
gouty pearl
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pearl — 1. A concretion formed around a grain of sand or other foreign body within the shell of certain mollusks. 2. One of a number of small tough masses, such as mucus occurring in the sputum in asthma. 3. SYN: keratin p … Medical dictionary
Tophus — A nodular mass of uric acid crystals. Tophi are characteristically deposited in different soft tissue areas of the body in gout. The word tophus comes via Latin from the Greek tophos meaning a porous volcanic stone. In chronic (tophaceous) gout,… … Medical dictionary
