porphyria

  • 21porphyria — [pɔ: fɪrɪə] noun Medicine a rare hereditary disorder of haemoglobin metabolism causing mental disturbance, extreme sensitivity to light, and excretion of dark pigments in the urine. Origin 1920s: mod. L., from porphyrin …

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  • 22porphyria — por·phyr·ia …

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  • 23porphyria — por•phyr•i•a [[t]pɔrˈfɪər i ə, ˈfaɪ ri ə[/t]] n. pat a hereditary defect of blood pigment metabolism marked by an excess of porphyrins in the urine and an extreme sensitivity to sunlight • Etymology: 1920–25 …

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  • 24porphyria — /pɔˈfɪriə/ (say paw fireeuh) noun a metabolic disorder associated with excess porphyrin in the blood and urine …

  • 25erythropoietic porphyria — porphyria in which excessive formation of porphyrin or its precursors occurs in bone marrow erythroblasts; usually congenital erythropoietic porphyria, but in some classification schemes (those not including a category erythrohepatic porphyria, q …

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  • 26hepatic porphyria — porphyria in which the excess formation of porphyrin or its precursors is found in the liver; it includes acute intermittent porphyria, variegate porphyria, and hereditary coproporphyria …

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  • 27erythrohepatic porphyria — porphyria in which abnormal overproduction of porphyrins and precursors occurs in both liver and bone marrow; when this category is used in classifying porphyrias, it usually includes only erythropoietic protoporphyria. Cf. erythropoietic p …

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  • 28Variegate porphyria — Classification and external resources Protoporphyrinogen IX ICD 10 E …

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  • 29Aminolevulinic acid dehydratase deficiency porphyria — (also known as Doss porphyria, [1] and Plumboporphyria [1]) is a cutaneous condition, disease can present during early childhood (as well as in adulthood) with acute neurologic symptoms that resemble those encountered in acute intermittent… …

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  • 30Acute intermittent porphyria — Infobox Disease Name = Acute intermittent porphyria Caption = DiseasesDB = 171 ICD10 = ICD10|E|80|2|e|70 ICD9 = ICD9|277.1 ICDO = OMIM = 176000 MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = med eMedicineTopic = 1880 MeshID = D017118 Acute intermittent porphyria… …

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