acetonuria

1. 1.

   excessive amounts of ketone bodies in the urine as in diabetes mellitus or starvation

   Synonymsketonuriaketoaciduria

   Broadersymptom

   Narrowermaple syrup urine disease

Other forms of acetonuria

plural

acetonurias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about acetonuria

What does acetonuria mean?

acetonuria means "excessive amounts of ketone bodies in the urine as in diabetes mellitus or starvation".

How many syllables are in acetonuria?

acetonuria has 6 syllables: a-ce-to-nu-ri-a. The stress falls on "nu".

What is another word for acetonuria?

Close synonyms include ketonuria, ketoaciduria. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acetonuria a common word?

acetonuria is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.