variegate porphyria

[ vâr′ē-ĭ-gāt′ ]

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n.

A hereditary disorder characterized by abdominal pain, neuropsychiatric abnormalities, dermal sensitivity to light and mechanical trauma, and increased fecal excretion of protoporphyrin and coproporphyrin.

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This species differs from A. porphyria in ring not being brown or brownish.
The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise|M. E. Hard
Body black or sordidly metallic greenish gray, usually yellow pollinose or variegate; gen at most hairy above.
Handbook of Medical Entomology|William Albert Riley
Pauline, of course, exists only as an abstraction, and Porphyria is in no exact sense a portrait from the life.
Life of Robert Browning|William Sharp
There, in five lines, is the scene and the mood, and in the sixth line Porphyria may enter.
An Introduction to the Study of Browning|Arthur Symons

Possibly the purple patches of relaxation which variegate the lives of the inmates are too few and too far between.
The Vagrancy Problem.|William Harbutt Dawson

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