Definition of Cystinuria

1. Noun. (medicine) The presence of cystine in the urine ¹

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Definition of Cystinuria

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Medical Definition of Cystinuria

1. An inherited abnormality of renal tubular transport of dibasic amino acids leading to massive urinary excretion of cystine, lysine, arginine, and ornithine. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cystinuria

cystids
cystifelleotomy
cystiform
cystigerous
cystinaemia
cystine
cystine bridge
cystine calculus
cystine desulfhydrase
cystine disease
cystine lyase
cystine storage disease
cystines
cystinosis
cystinotic leukocyte
cystinuria (current term)
cystinurias
cystinyl
cystiphorous
cystis
cystis fellea
cystis urinaria
cystistaxis
cystitic
cystitides
cystitis
cystitis colli
cystitis cystica
cystitis glandularis
cystlike

Literary usage of Cystinuria

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"IN a previous paper ou cystinuria one of us collected all the cases reported up ... Chlr., 1885. ' Prag. med. Woch., 1893. 8 cystinuria and Its Relation to ..."

2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"In cystinuria (aside from the temporary forms met with in phosphorus poisoning ... In most cases of cystinuria, the metabolic disturbance is more severe, ..."

3. Chemical Pathology: Being a Discussion of General Pathology from the by Harry Gideon Wells (1914)
"Baumann and others observed that in cystinuria the urine often contains, besides the cystine, the diamines cadaverine and putrescine, which are formed from ..."

4. Handbook of therapy by Oliver Thomas Osborne, Morris Fishbein (1920)
"cystinuria cystinuria may be classed among the rarities of medical practice. However, the perversion of metabolism whereby cystin, one of the amino-avid ..."

5. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1891)
"cystinuria in a Child.—A case illustrating the rare condition of cystinuria is recorded by Dr. Walter G. Smith, of Dublin. A boy, aged eight years, ..."

6. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"cystinuria The inability to decompose amino acids may be restricted to certain of ... In patients with cystinuria, however, a considerable proportion of the ..."

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