Crossword-Solution: URICACID 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The question as to the relation of uricacidæmia, or lithæmia, to cancer has never been fully studied, and it is worth considering whether, as in gout and rheumatism, to which cancer is often associated and perhaps closely allied, the exciting cause may not be the lodgment somewhere of uratic deposit, which is further excited and fed by effete or imperfectly oxidized nitrogenous elements; for later we shall see that perverted metabolism, largely of proteid elements, is closely associated with cancer.