Allopurinol

Definition: Allopurinol

Allopurinol

Noun

1. A drug (trade name Zyloprim) used to treat gout and other conditions in which there is an excessive buildup of uric acid.

Specialty Definitions: Allopurinol

Domain	Definitions
Health	A xanthine oxidase inhibitor that decreases uric acid production. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Allopurinol

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Allopurinol is a drug used for the treatment of gout.

It works by inhibiting xanthine oxidase, an enzyme involved in the production of uric acid. (Uric acid is the metabolite responsible for gout.)

Allopurinol can also be given with some cancer treatments that increase uric acid, as well as for kidney stones.

Allopurinol is a analog of the natural purines in the body, and is quickly metabolised to oxipurinol which is also a xanthine oxidase inhibitor.

It can be given in tablet (usually 100 mg - 300 mg), or by injection. The side effects of high levels of precursors are usually very minor.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Allopurinol."

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Synonym: Allopurinol

Synonym: Zyloprim (n). (additional references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Allopurinol

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The drug allopurinol may also be useful in some cases of hypercalciuria and hyperuricosuria. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Allopurinol

"Allopurinol" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Allopurinol" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	9	117,287

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Allopurinol

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
allopurinol	291
allopurinol side effects	14
allopurinol information	3
allopurinol gout	3
allopurinol liquid	2
apo allopurinol	2
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Modern Translations: Allopurinol

Language		Translations for "allopurinol"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		allopurinol. (various references)

Dutch		allopurinol. (various references)

Finnish		allopurinoli. (various references)

French		allopurinol. (various references)

German		Allopurinol. (various references)

Greek		αλλοπουρινόλη. (various references)

Italian		allopurinolo. (various references)

Pig Latin		allopurinolay

Portuguese		alopurinol. (various references)

Spanish		alopurinol. (various references)

Swedish		allopurinol. (various references)
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Derivations: Allopurinol

Derivations
	Words beginning with "allopurinol": allopurinols. (additional references)
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Anagrams: Allopurinol

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-i-l-l-l-n-o-o-p-r-u"
	-3 letters: linalool, unipolar.
	-4 letters: linalol, pilular, polaron, purloin.
	-5 letters: apollo, inpour, lollop, oorali, pallor, paulin, pillar, plural, prolan, purlin, unroll, urinal.
	Words containing the letters "a-i-l-l-l-n-o-o-p-r-u"
	+1 letter: allopurinols.
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