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Hematoporphyria vs Hematoporphyrin - What's the difference?

hematoporphyria | hematoporphyrin |

As nouns the difference between hematoporphyria and hematoporphyrin

is that hematoporphyria is (medicine) a disorder of porphyrin metabolism in which uroporphyrin and coproporphyrin are present in the tissues and urine while hematoporphyrin is (biochemistry) the porphyrin portion of heme (minus the iron atom).

hematoporphyria

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Alternative forms

*haematoporphyria

Noun

(en noun)
  • (medicine) A disorder of porphyrin metabolism in which uroporphyrin and coproporphyrin are present in the tissues and urine

    • hematoporphyrin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biochemistry) The porphyrin portion of heme (minus the iron atom)