Definition of Hippuric

1. a. Obtained from the urine of horses; as, hippuric acid.

Definition of Hippuric

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to hippuric acid or its derivatives ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hippuric

1. denoting an acid [adj]

Medical Definition of Hippuric

1. Obtained from the urine of horses; as, hippuric acid. Hippuric acid, a white crystalline substance, containing nitrogen, present in the urine of herbivorous animals, and in small quantity in human urine. By the action of acids, it is decomposed into benzoic acid and glycocoll. Origin: Gr. Horse + rine: cf. F. Hippurique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hippuric

hippopotamus
hippopotamuses
hippopotamuslike
hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian
hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
hippos
hipposiderid
hipposiderids
hippotamus
hippotigrine
hippotomy
hippurate
hippurates
hippuria
hippuric (current term)
hippuric acid
hippuricase
hippurite
hippurites
hippuryl-L-lysine hydrolase
hippus
hippuses
hippy
hippy jump
hippydom
hippydoms
hippyish
hips
hipshot

Literary usage of Hippuric

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1865)
"Dry hippuric acid, heated in a retort with dry chloride wf zinc and quartz-sand, ... hippuric acid in alkaline solution is slowly oxidised by ozone, ..."

2. Practical physiological chemistry by Philip Bovier Hawk (1918)
"Pure hippuric acid melts at i87°C. The most satisfactory method for the ... The output of hippuric acid is increased in diabetes owing probably to the ..."

3. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1913)
"Its co-occurrence with cystin has not been observed, so that no separation of the two substances is necessary. hippuric Acid. ..."

4. A Manual of clinical diagnosis by means of laboratory methods, for students by Charles Edmund Simon (1902)
"Very little is known of the pathological variations in the excretion of hippuric acid; this is principally owing to the fact that until recently suitable ..."

5. Commercial Organic Analysis by Alfred Henry Allen, Wm. A. Davis (1913)
"Its co-occurrence with cystin has not been observed, so that no separation of the two substances is necessary. hippuric Acid. ..."

6. Commercial Organic Analysis by Alfred Henry Allen (1913)
"Its co-occurrence with cystin has not been observed, so that no separation of the two substances is necessary. hippuric Acid. ..."

7. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1858)
"oily, the hippuric ether may be precipitated by water, in the form of a thick oil, which solidifies in the crystalline form after being freed from the ..."

8. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"hippuric acid, as we have seen, occurs in small quantity in the urine of man, ... Now hippuric acid may be formed by the combination, with dehydration, ..."

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