When there is too high a concentration of uric acid in the blood stream it starts to crystallize. The crystals that are formed have the shape of tiny very hard and sharp pointed shards. these find...
is seen in chronic kidney disease, low thyroid, toxemia of pregnancy, and alcoholism. Patients with gout excrete less than half the uric acid in their blood as other persons.
Normally the body filters uric acid and it is removed with urine, however if this function is impaired in some way you end up with a situation where the uric acid turns into crystals that settle in...