tyrosinemia

[tahy-roh-si-nee-mee-uh, tir-oh-]

noun

Pathology.

1. an inherited disorder of tyrosine metabolism that can lead to liver and kidney disease and intellectual disability unless controlled by a special diet.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tyrosinemia¹

First recorded in 1960–65; tyrosine + -emia

Example Sentences

In people, the inherited liver disease that the scientists targeted in mice, called hereditary tyrosinemia type 1, starts damaging the liver months before birth.

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Mice that have been genetically modified to develop hereditary tyrosinemia, a human liver disease, will resist the disease if they also lose another gene on chromosome 16 called homogentisic acid dioxygenase.

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The Philadelphia scientists then tried their technique on hereditary tyrosinemia type 1.

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