alkaptonuria

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From alkapton +‎ -uria.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ælˌkæptəˈnʊəɹɪə/

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, published 2004, page 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.

Translations

Indonesian

Etymology

Internationalism.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /alkaptonuˈria/ [al.kap̚.t̪o.nuˈri.a]
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Syllabification: al‧kap‧to‧nu‧ri‧a

Noun

alkaptonuria (plural alkaptonuria-alkaptonuria)

  1. (pathology) alkaptonuria

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