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porphyria Path.|pɔːˈfɪrɪə|
[mod.L., f. porphyrin + -ia1.]
Any of various metabolic disorders characterized by the excretion of abnormally large quantities of porphyrins.
1923A. E. Garrod Inborn Errors of Metabolism (ed. 2) viii. 144 Pigmentation of the enamel is a rare phenomenon... Even in congenital porphyria it is evidently an exceptional sign. 1945Jrnl. Biol. Chem. CLVII. 330 A complex mixture of pigments occurs in porphyria urine. 1969Macalpine & Hunter George III & Mad-Business xii. 197 The galaxy of patients assembled in these pages is due to our method of selection and must not create the impression that porphyria is commoner among the great than the not so great. 1970Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. II. xxxi. 10/2 The Swedish type of hepatic porphyria..may appear clinically only after administration of certain drugs, particularly barbiturates. 1975Victoria (B.C.) Times 29 Apr. 14/3 Dermatologists..had been treating the man who lived in a soldiers' home for..porphyria.
Hence porˈphyric a., of, pertaining to, or affected with porphyria; also as n., a person so affected.
1934Acta Med. Scand. LXXXIII. 286 Hans Fischer..has found a violet substance in the gallstones of the famous porphyric Petry. 1944Ibid. CXVII. 8 A latent porphyric may suffer from another acute abdominal malady than a porphyric colic. 1974Nature 9 Aug. 504/1 We noticed that skin lesions were provoked in porphyric rats, whose coats were shaved. |