Chem. Also lithiate. [f. LITH-IC + -ATE.] A salt of lithic acid.
1821. W. Prout, Gravel, Calculus, etc. 112. The quantity of lithate of ammonia in the urine is increased above the natural standard.
1823. Crabb, Technol. Dict., Lithiate.
1862. H. W. Fuller, Dis. Lungs, 248. The urine is generally scanty during the height of the disease, deep-coloured, loaded with lithates.
1876. Harley, Mat. Med. (ed. 6), 119. It is supposed to decompose the insoluble lithate of soda in the system.
Hence Lithatic a., of or pertaining to, or of the nature of a lithate.
1858. J. H. Bennet, Nutrition, v. 154. The turbidity is owing to the presence of a lithatic deposit.
