Maple Syrup Urine Disease

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Maple Syrup Urine Disease

Definition: Maple Syrup Urine Disease

Maple Syrup Urine Disease

Noun

1. An inherited disorder of metabolism in which the urine has a odor characteristic of maple syrup; if untreated it can lead to mental retardation and death in early childhood.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Specialty Definitions: Maple Syrup Urine Disease

Domain	Definitions
Medicine	A genetic disorder involving deficiency of an enzyme necessary in the metabolism of branched-chain amino acids, and named for the characteristic odor of the urine. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Maple Syrup Urine Disease

Synonym: branched chain ketoaciduria (n). (additional references)

Commercial Usage: Maple Syrup Urine Disease

Domain	Title
Periodicals	Maple Syrup Urine Disease Newsletter (reference) (more periodical examples)
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Modern Translations: Maple Syrup Urine Disease

Language		Translations for "maple syrup urine disease"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		leucinose (maple-syrup disease). (various references)

Pig Latin		aplemay yrupsay ineuray iseaseday
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Alternative Orthography: Maple Syrup Urine Disease

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 61 70 6C 65 53 79 72 75 70 55 72 69 6E 65 44 69 73 65 61 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100001 01110000 01101100 01100101 00100000 01010011 01111001 01110010 01110101 01110000 00100000 01010101 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100101 00100000 01000100 01101001 01110011 01100101 01100001 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 0070 006C 0065 0053 0079 0072 0075 0070 0055 0072 0069 006E 0065 0044 0069 0073 0065 0061 0073 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47678278712539184878225584758071238758571678571

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Translations: Modern

5. Orthography
6. Bibliography

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