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Gouty

1. Diseased with, or subject to, the gout; as, a gouty person; a gouty joint.

2. Pertaining to the gout. Gouty matter.

3. Swollen, as if from gout.

4. Boggy; as, gouty land. Gouty bronchitis, bronchitis arising as a secondary disease during the progress of gout. Gouty concretions, calculi (urate of sodium) formed in the joints, kidneys, etc, of sufferers from gout. Gouty kidney, an affection occurring during the progress of gout, the kidney shriveling and containing concretions of urate of sodium.