alkaptonuria

• alcaptonuria

From alkapton +‎ -uria.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ælˌkæptəˈnʊəɹɪə/

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.

• alkaptonuric