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• alcaptonuria

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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