Definition of Podagra

1. n. Gout in the joints of the foot; - - applied also to gout in other parts of body.

Definition of Podagra

1. gout in the foot [n -S] : PODAGRAL, PODAGRIC [adj]

Medical Definition of Podagra

1. Gout in the joints of the foot; applied also to gout in other parts of body. Origin: L. See Podagric. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Podagra

pocosen
pocosens
pocosin
pocosins
pocoson
pocosons
pocula
poculiform
poculum
pod
pod-
pod people
pod person
pod rot
pod slurping
podagra (current term)
podagral
podagras
podagric
podagrics
podagrous
podal
podalgia
podalic
podalic extraction
podalic version
podarthritis
podarthrum
podcast
podcasted

Literary usage of Podagra

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

1. Special Pathology and Diagnostics: With Therapeutic Hints by Charles Godlove Raue (1882)
"Gout, podagra, Arthritis. Gout differs entirely from rheumatism in the form of its attacks, (of which, later,) by the overcharge of the blood with uric acid ..."

2. A Treatise on the practice of medicine by Roberts Bartholow (1898)
"GOUT—podagra. Definition.—By the term gout is meant a constitutional malady, inherited, ... podagra is the Latin name for gout in the foot ; chiragra, ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"The notion that there is no remedy against the podagra, and that a person who has been once attacked can never be cured, is erroneous. ..."

4. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1824)
"... and, of course, the hero ! He is gay, with forty pounds a-year. He lives near Plymouth, is an ugly podagra ..."

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