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Definition: Porphyria |
PorphyriaNoun1. A genetic abnormality of metabolism causing abdominal pains and mental confusion. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "porphyria" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
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Health | A group of disorders characterized by the excessive production of porphyrins or their precursors that arises from abnormalities in the regulation of the porphyrin-heme pathway. The porphyrias are usually divided into three broad groups, erythropoietic, hepatic, and erythrohepatic, according to the major sites of abnormal porphyrin synthesis. (references) |
Medicine | A group of rare, inherited blood disorders. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Porphyria affects either the nervous system or the skin. When porphyria affects the nervous system, it can cause chest pain, abdominal pain, muscle cramps, weakness, hallucinations, seizures, purple-red-colored urine, or mental disorders like depression, anxiety, and paranoia. When porphyria affects the skin, blisters, itching, swelling, and sensitivity to the sun can result.
Porphyria is an inherited condition. Attacks of the disease can be triggered by drugs (barbiturates, tranquilizers, birth control pills, sedatives), chemicals, certain foods, and exposure to the sun.
Porphyria is diagnosed through tests on blood, urine, and stool. It can be treated with medicines to relieve symptoms, a drug called hemin (which is like heme), or a high-carbohydrate diet.
Porphyria has been speculatively linked with the vampirism myth, based on a number of superficial resemblances between the symptoms of porphyria and attributes of mythical vampires. However, these claims are based on a misunderstanding of the nature of porphyria as well as faulty understanding of vampire folklore. Before this, porphyria was suggested as a possible explanation for werewolf beliefs but is inadequate there as well for similar reasons.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Porphyria."
Crosswords: Porphyria |
| English words defined with "porphyria": Porphyry shell. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "porphyria": Porphyria, Acute Intermittent, Porphyria, Erythrohepatic, Porphyria, Erythropoietic, Porphyria, Hepatic. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Porphyria" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Danish (porphyria). |
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Health | When porphyria affects the skin, blisters, itching, swelling, and sensitivity to the sun can result. (references) | |
When the body produces and excretes too much porphyrin, as happens with porphyria, not enough heme remains to keep a person healthy. (references) | ||
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Expressions using "porphyria": Oliva porphyria ♦ Porphyria Cutanea Tarda. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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porphyria | 349 |
porphyria cutanea tarda | 47 |
acute intermittent porphyria | 22 |
porphyria vampire | 5 |
porphyria disease | 5 |
porphyria symptom | 5 |
american foundation porphyria | 3 |
picture of porphyria | 3 |
acute porphyria | 2 |
porphyria treatment | 2 |
pain porphyria | 2 |
cutanea porphyria | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "porphyria"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | porphyria, porfyri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | porphyrismus, porphyria, porfyrie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | porfyria. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | porphyrie (f), porphyrie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Porphyrie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πορφυρία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | porfiria. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orphyriapay porfíria. (various references) порфирия. (various references) porfiria. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "porphyria": porphyrias. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-i-o-p-p-r-r-y" | |
-3 letters: horary, papyri, priory, riprap. | |
-4 letters: hairy, happy, harpy, harry, hippo, hippy, hoary, hoppy, parry, payor, prior. | |
-5 letters: ahoy, airy, hair, harp, hoar, hora, hoya, hypo, ohia, opah, orra, pair, parr, pipy, prao, pray, proa, prop, roar, ropy, yirr. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-i-o-p-p-r-r-y" | |
+1 letter: porphyrias. | |
+4 letters: cryptographic, hypermetropia, hyperpolarize, physiographer. | |
+5 letters: cryptographies, hypermetropias, hyperpolarized, hyperpolarizes, physiographers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 72 70 68 79 72 69 61 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- .-. .--. .... -.--. .-. .. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110010 01110000 01101000 01111001 01110010 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o r p h y r i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0072 0070 0068 0079 0072 0069 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)508184827491847567 |
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