tyrosinemia

1. 1.

   autosomal recessive defect in tyrosine metabolism resulting in liver and kidney disturbances and mental retardation

   Broaderautosomal recessive disease

Other forms of tyrosinemia

plural

tyrosinemias·

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 tyrosinemia

What does tyrosinemia mean?

tyrosinemia means "autosomal recessive defect in tyrosine metabolism resulting in liver and kidney disturbances and mental retardation".

How many syllables are in tyrosinemia?

tyrosinemia has 6 syllables and divides as ty-ro-si-ne-mi-a under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.