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/ɡaʊt/ · noun
(uncountable, pathology) 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..
Once gout was confined largely to Western civilization (with some outliers, like the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan); now its ravages are global.
Alternative forms: gut, gutt
I see thee still, / And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood.
... of whose wounds were undefined - and every throb of the veins added length to some of the red streams, that wound down the hollows of the indrawn cheeks - some of them ending in half-clotted gouts or drops.
... there sprang a gout of black and oozy blood. Whereat a great cry went up and James Mure fell forward on the sand as one suddenly stricken dead.
... gouts or drops from the hand of Zeus.
... gouts or drops of water on their shield,[…]
[S]mall chunks of rubble and gouts of soot had fallen from the chimney, and were ground into the rug under his unwary feet.
Use gout when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gout means (uncountable, pathology) 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..
Common synonyms include crystalline arthritis, gouty arthritis, urarthritis, rich man's disease.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Once gout was confined largely to Western civilization (with some outliers, like the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan); now its ravages are global.
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