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- noun Plural form of
hippurate .
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In hay-fed horses carbonates are still abundant, while in those mainly grain-fed they are replaced by hippurates and phosphates -- the products of the wear of tissues -- the carbonates being the result of oxidation of the vegetable acids in the feed.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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