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alkapton Med.|ælˈkæptɒn|
Also alcapton.
[a. G. (C. Boedeker 1861, in Ann. d. Chemie u. Pharm. CXVII. 101), f. alkali + Gr. κάπτον, neut. pres. pple. of κάπτειν to swallow greedily.]
A reducing substance which causes urine, left standing, to turn dark through oxidation. Also attrib. Hence alkaptoˈnuria [-uria], the disease in which this substance is present; alkaptoˈnuric a. and n.
1888Jrnl. Chem. Soc. LIV. 1121 Alcaptonuria... A certain kind of human urine darkens on the addition of alkalis. Bödeker..isolated from such urine a substance to which he gave the name ‘alcapton’. 1899Garrod in Jrnl. Physiol. XXIII. 512 The urine of an alkaptonuric individual. Ibid., Alkapton urines. Ibid., Some cases of alkaptonuria. 1905― & Hele Ibid. XXXIII. 198 An adult male alkaptonuric. |