Usually means: Genetic disorder affecting amino acid metabolism.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word phenylketonuria:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. phenylketonuria: Merriam-Webster
  2. phenylketonuria: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. phenylketonuria: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. phenylketonuria: Collins English Dictionary
  5. phenylketonuria: Vocabulary.com
  6. phenylketonuria: Wordnik
  7. phenylketonuria: Wiktionary
  8. phenylketonuria: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. phenylketonuria: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. phenylketonuria: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. phenylketonuria: Dictionary.com
  12. Phenylketonuria: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. phenylketonuria: Rhymezone
  14. phenylketonuria: FreeDictionary.org
  15. phenylketonuria: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. phenylketonuria: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. phenylketonuria: Encyclopedia

Medicine (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. phenylketonuria: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Phenylketonuria: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  5. Phenylketonuria (PKU): Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Phenylketonuria: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  9. phenylketonuria: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  10. phenylketonuria: Medical dictionary
  11. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  12. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  13. Phenylketonuria: Drug Medical Dictionary
  14. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (phenylketonuria)

noun:  (medicine) A metabolic disorder in which individuals lack the liver enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) which is needed to metabolize the amino acid phenylalanine.

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