A salt or ester of hippuric acid.
Example sentencesExamples
- Glycine and sodium benzoate are produced upon the hydrolysis of sodium hippurate by the enzyme hippuricase.
- Methenamine hippurate is an antibiotic which is used to treat and prevent urinary tract infections.
- Unfortunately, the needle-shaped forms are often confused with hippurate.
- The benzene rings of the hippurates are in ‘orientational disorder’ adopting two different orientations.
- Hexamine hippurates is helpful for preventing and treating infections of the urinary system; it acts by being transformed to formaldehyde.