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A genetic abnormality of metabolism causing abdominal pains and mental confusion
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porphyria
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n. (context pathology English) Any of several usually hereditary abnormalities of porphyrin metabolism characterized by excretion of excess porphyrins in the urine.
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The porphyrias (, or ) are a group of rare diseases in which chemical substances called porphyrins accumulate, leading to either skin changes or neurological symptoms or sometimes both. The body requires porphyrins to produce heme , which carries oxygen ...
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n. a genetic abnormality of metabolism causing abdominal pains and mental confusion
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
metabolic disorder, 1923, from porphyrin (1910), the name of the type of chemical which, in imbalance, causes it, from German porphyrin , chemical name, from Greek porphyros "purple" (see purple ) + -in (2). Some of the compounds are purple.
Usage examples of porphyria.
The man had porphyria, a most debilitating affliction that ultimately ruined his health and rendered him mad as a hatter.
And this profligate cityscape is populated by characters--some met, some merely mentioned--with names equally evocative: Porphyria Levant, Estella Velvet, Brother Orphelin, Cerberus Cresset, Mavortian von Heber.
In one type, cutaneous porphyria, the symptoms can resemble the characteristics of a werewolf.