alkaptonuria

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Etymology

From alkapton +‎ -uria.

Pronunciation

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Noun

alkaptonuria (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) A rare inherited genetic disorder of phenylalanine and tyrosine metabolism, causing the accumulation and eventual excretion of alkapton.
    • 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial 2004, p. 39:
      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.

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