alcaptonuria

Noun

alkaptonuria (uncountable)

1. A rare inherited genetic disorder of phenylalanine and tyrosine metabolism, causing the accumulation and eventual excretion of alkapton.
   • 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.1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 39