Porphyria Definition

pôr-fîrē-ə
noun
An inherited disorder of pigment metabolism with excretion of porphyrins in the urine and dangerous sensitivity to sunlight.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Porphyria

Noun

Singular:
porphyria
Plural:
porphyrias

Origin of Porphyria

  • From porphyrin, from German Porphyrin.

    From Wiktionary

  • New Latin porphyr(in) –ia

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Porphyria Sentence Examples

  • Several weeks later she was dead, having suffered from acute porphyria.

  • The most consistent clinical feature of porphyria cutanea tarda is bullous dermatosis on exposure to sunlight.

  • For many years, it was believed to be due to a genetic disorder that caused variegate porphyria.

  • Recent scholarship has proffered the theory that his condition was occasioned by an enzyme deficiency that leads to the inherited disease porphyria.

  • The skin is never affected in acute intermittent porphyria.

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Words Starting With

PPOPOR

Words Ending With

AIARIA

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9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With P9 Letter Words Ending With A