Alkaptonuria

//ælˌkæptəˈnʊəɹɪə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A rare inherited genetic disorder of phenylalanine and tyrosine metabolism, causing the accumulation and eventual excretion of alkapton. uncountable

    "In his work at St Bartholomew's Hospital and Great Ormond Street in London, Garrod had come across a number of patients with a rare and not very serious disease, known as alkaptonuria."

  2. 2
    a rare recessive metabolic anomaly marked by ochronosis and the presence of alkapton in the urine wordnet

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alcaptonuria

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"In his work at St Bartholomew's Hospital and Great Ormond Street in London, Garrod had come across a number of patients with a rare and not very serious disease, known as alkaptonuria."

Etymology

From alkapton + -uria.

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