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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Prob. gly

alic + carb

onic

(Chem.)

Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid (

C4H5N3O4

) not known in the free state, but obtained, in combination with its salts, by a slow oxidation of uric acid, to which it is related.