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PKU

PKU is the abbreviation of phenylketonuria.

Meaning of phenylketonuria

Noun

phenylketonuria (countable and uncountable, plural phenylketonurias)

  1. A metabolic disorder in which individuals lack the liver enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) which is needed to metabolize the amino acid phenylalanine.
    • Nash Hensley, of South Bend, Indiana, was born with two genetic disorders: achondroplasia, a bone growth disorder characterized by dwarfism, and phenylketonuria, or PKU, which causes the phenylalanine amino acid to build up in the body, according to the Mayo Clinic. PKU is caused by a defect in the...2021 April 11, Rachel Trent, “How a 6-year-old with two rare disorders inspired a country song about Kenny Chesney”, in CNN, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2022
    Synonyms:
    PKU

Proper noun

PKU

  1. Synonym of Peking University.
    Synonyms:
    Peking University

Synonyms of PKU

  • Peking University

Questions about PKU

What does PKU mean?
PKU means synonym of Peking University.
What is PKU the abbreviation of?
PKU is the abbreviation of phenylketonuria.
What part of speech is PKU?
PKU is a proper noun.

Words near PKU in the dictionary

  1. pkrs.
  2. pks
  3. pkt
  4. pkt.
  5. pkts
  6. PKU
  7. pkwy
  8. Pky
  9. PKZILLA
  10. PKZILLA-1
  11. PKZILLA-2

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Adapted from Wiktionary: PKU (page history and authors); phenylketonuria (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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