a. Chem. [f. URANIL + -IC 1 b.] Obtained or derived from uramil. Usu. uramilic acid.
1839. R. D. Thomson, in British Ann., 382. Uramilic acid.
1841. Brande, Chem. (ed. 5), 1383. Uramilic acid forms soluble crystallizable salts with ammonia, and with the fixed alkalis.
1856. Watts, trans. Gmelin’s Handbk. Chem., X. 191. Uramilic acid dissolves in cold nitric acid without evolution of gas.
