porphyrinurian.

1916 Chem. Abstr. 10 1671 The term porphyrinuria is used in place of hematoporphyrinuria because the substance isolated from the urine is not identical with hematoporphyrin.

1923 A. E. Garrod Inborn Errors Metabolism (ed. 2) viii. 137 Although there is much to be said in favour of Hans Fischer's proposal that the excretion of urine rich in porphyrin should rather be described as porphyrinuria, it seems better, in view of Günther's priority, to retain..the name [sc. haematoporphyria congenita] which he assigned to it.

1944 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 29 Jan. 287/1 The term porphyrinuria should be reserved to indicate those instances in which the porphyrins occurring naturally in the urine are present in amounts above the normal range, a condition which exists in a great variety of diseases.

1957 Amer. Jrnl. Med. 22 758/1 A large literature on porphyrin excretion in urine and feces in different diseases, the symptomatic porphyrinurias, has been published.

1967 Amer. Jrnl. Med. 42 476/2 Marked porphyrinuria was an additional feature in this case, and the urine also consistently contained another brown pigment.

1987 Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 514 204 Porphyrinuria is a symptom in erythropoietic and erythrohepatic porphyrias, in acute hepatic porphyrias and lead poisoning, and in chronic hepatic porphyrias leading to porphyria cutanea tarda.

2001 Toxicol. Sci. 61 197 Porphyrinurias induced by mercury and other metals.