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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PORPHYRIA

From New Latin, from porphyrin a purple substance excreted by patients suffering from this condition, from Greek porphura purple.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PORPHYRIA

porphyria  [pɔːˈfɪrɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PORPHYRIA

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adjective
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adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Porphyria is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PORPHYRIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

porphyria

Porphyria

The porphyrias are a group of rare inherited or acquired disorders of certain enzymes that normally participate in the production of porphyrins and heme. They manifest with either neurological complications or skin problems or occasionally both. Porphyrias are classified in two ways, by symptoms and by pathophysiology. Symptomatically, acute porphyrias primarily present with nervous system involvement, often with severe abdominal pain, vomiting, neuropathy and mental disturbances. Cutaneous porphyrias present with skin manifestations often after exposure to sun due to the accumulation of excess porphyrins near the surface of the skin. Physiologically, porphyrias are classified as hepatic or erythropoietic based on the sites of accumulation of heme precursors, either in the liver or bone marrow and red blood cells. The term porphyria is derived from the Greek πορφύρα, porphyra, meaning "purple pigment". The name is likely to have been a reference to the purple discolouration of feces and urine when exposed to light in patients during an attack.

Definition of porphyria in the English dictionary

The definition of porphyria in the dictionary is a hereditary disease of body metabolism, producing abdominal pain, mental confusion, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PORPHYRIA


allocheiria
ˌæaləʊˈkaɪrɪə
allochiria
ˌæaləʊˈkaɪrɪə
argyria
ɑːˈdʒɪrɪə
Assyria
əˈsɪrɪə
Coelesyria
ˌsiːliːˈsɪrɪə
deliria
dɪˈlɪrɪə
Durnovaria
ˌdjʊrnəʊˈveɪrɪə
eyrir
ˈeɪrɪə
hydrargyria
ˌhaɪdrɑːˈdʒəɪrɪə
sorbaria
sɔːˈbeɪrɪə
subdeliria
ˌsʌbdəˈlɪrɪə
Syria
ˈsɪrɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PORPHYRIA

porosis
porosities
porosity
porous
porously
porousness
porpentine
porpess
porphyric
porphyries
porphyrin
porphyrite
porphyritic
porphyrogenite
porphyroid
porphyropsin
porphyrous
porphyry
porpoise
porporate

WORDS THAT END LIKE PORPHYRIA

Alexandria
Algeria
aria
Austria
bacteria
Bulgaria
Calabria
collyria
criteria
feria
galleria
gloria
Illyria
Liberia
maria
Nigeria
pizzeria
Styria
the Santa Maria
victoria

Synonyms and antonyms of porphyria in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «porphyria» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PORPHYRIA

Find out the translation of porphyria to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of porphyria from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «porphyria» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

卟啉症
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

porfiria
570 millions of speakers

English

porphyria
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

porphyria
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

البورفيريا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

порфирия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

porfiria
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

porphyria
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

porphyrie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Porphyria
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Porphyrie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ポルフィリン症
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

포르피린증
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Porphyria
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

porphyria
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

போர்பிரியா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पोफ्रीरिया
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

porfiri
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

porfiria
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

porfirię
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

порфирія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

porfirie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πορφυρία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

porfirie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

porfyri
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

porfyri
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of porphyria

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PORPHYRIA»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PORPHYRIA» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about porphyria

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PORPHYRIA»

Discover the use of porphyria in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to porphyria and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Porphyria: The Woman Who Has "The Vampire Disease" - A True ...
A woman recounts her struggle to live a normal life despite the isolating effects of her rare and cruel disease, porphyria, an ailment in which light causes profound damage to the skin. IP.
Tammy Evans, 1997
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Diseases of the Eye and Skin: A Color Atlas
The onset is sudden and associated with severe pain, an intense, deep-red or bluish-red injection, a cloudy cornea, keratic precipitates, and often secondary glaucoma. THE PORPHYRIAS Porphyria represents a group of enzymatic disorders ...
H. Bruce Ostler, 2004
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Anesthesia for Genetic, Metabolic, and Dysmorphic Syndromes ...
Also, a prolonged alteration in consciousness with transient neurologic symptoms and elevated porphyrins was described in a patient who received propofol who did not have a prior diagnosis of porphyria (11). However, in this patient the ...
Victor C. Baum, Jennifer E. O'Flaherty, 2007
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Stoelting's Anesthesia and Co-existing Disease
TABLE 13-9 Inborn Errors of Metabolism Porphyria Gout Pseudogout Hyperlipidemia Carbohydrate metabolism disorders Amino acid disorders Mucopolysaccharidoses Gangliosidoses porphyria that may result in life- threatening reactions in ...
Roberta L. Hines, Katherine E. Marschall, 2008
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Clinical Anesthesia
The glycogen-glucose-lactate pathway. GLU-6, glucose 6-phosphatase. to ultraviolet light exhibited by skin fragility and bleeding, are other chief features of the porphyrias. About 80% of patients with variegate porphyria are photosensitive .
Paul G. Barash, 2009
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Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology
The first authentic cases of porphyria were described in 1874 (1,2). Since that time, seven different kinds of porphyria have been distinguished (Fig. 30.1, Table 30.1), each caused by a partial deficiency of a different enzyme beyond the first ...
John P. Greer, 2009
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Complications in Anesthesia
MANAGEMENT Perioperative care of patients with porphyria involves more than the avoidance of barbiturates. Preoperative assessment should identify whether symptoms of an acute attack are present. In the absence of an acute attack, the ...
John L. Atlee, 2007
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Trace Your Genes to Health
PORPHYRIA: THE ROYAL PSYCHOSIS Pyroluria, you'll recall, may have affected Charles Darwin and Emily Dickinson. Porphyria, its near but much rarer relative, may be nearly as notable a psychosis in that royalty has probably been among ...
Chris M. Reading, 2002
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The Porphyrin Handbook: Medical aspects of porphyrins
AIP is the most common inherited form of acute porphyria and in more than 90% of the cases the PBG-D activity in red blood cells is reduced to about 50% of normal. In a few studies AIP patients are presented with normal PBG-D activity in  ...
Karl M. Kadish, Kevin M. Smith, Roger Guilard, 2003
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The 5-minute Neurology Consult
Acute intermittent porphyria is the most common porphyria associated with neurologic manifestations and is classified as a hepatic porphyria due to the overproduction and accumulation of porphyrin precursors in the liver. EPIDEMIOLOGY ...
D. Joanne Lynn, Herbert B. Newton, Alexander Rae-Grant, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PORPHYRIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term porphyria is used in the context of the following news items.
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Health + Fitness
My skin disease is called porphyria, or as I discovered through even more testing, pseudoporphyria. Pseudoporphyria is what it sounds like. «Womans Day, Jul 15»
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Company Shares of uniQure N.V. Drops by -3.01%
In the clinical pipeline, it has gene treatments for hemophilia, porphyria, Parkinson, Sanfilippo B syndrome and hearing loss. Additionally, it is ... «American Trade Journal, Jul 15»
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The stories of Queen Victoria's granddaughters: Princess Charlotte …
Later evidence suggests Charlotte may have inherited porphyria from her great, great grandfather George III. If so, her anxious behaviour even ... «Royal Central, Jul 15»
4
A Device Promising Safe, Permanent Birth Control Delivers Pain …
A doctor diagnosed her with porphyria, a rare blood disease. The investigating doctors studying her told her the problems couldn't be related to ... «Dallas Observer, Jul 15»
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Cowen & Company Rating Update on uniQure N.V. (NASDAQ:QURE)
In the clinical pipeline, it has gene treatments for hemophilia, porphyria, Parkinson, Sanfilippo B syndrome and hearing loss. Additionally, it is ... «Money Flow Index, Jul 15»
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Uniqure NV Receives "Buy" Rating from Roth Capital (QURE)
In the clinical pipeline, it has gene treatments for hemophilia, porphyria, Parkinson, Sanfilippo B syndrome and hearing loss. Additionally, it is engaged in the ... «Dakota Financial News, Jul 15»
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Short Interest Update of uniQure N.V. (NASDAQ:QURE)
In the clinical pipeline, it has gene treatments for hemophilia, porphyria, Parkinson, Sanfilippo B syndrome and hearing loss. Additionally, it is ... «American Trade Journal, Jul 15»
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Company Shares of uniQure N.V. Rally 2.41%
In the clinical pipeline, it has gene treatments for hemophilia, porphyria, Parkinson, Sanfilippo B syndrome and hearing loss. Additionally, it is ... «American Trade Journal, Jul 15»
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FarmGirls: Avoiding chemicals
... learned I had an auto immune disease called acute intermittent porphyria. This disease can lie dormant for years until a chemical sets it off. «Waxahachie Daily Light, Jul 15»
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Uniqure NV Receives $42.29 Consensus Price Target from Analysts …
In the clinical pipeline, it has gene treatments for hemophilia, porphyria, Parkinson, Sanfilippo B syndrome and hearing loss. Additionally, it is ... «Dakota Financial News, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Porphyria [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/porphyria>. Apr 2024 ».
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