aminoaciduria

n.
A disorder of protein metabolism in which excessive amounts of amino acids are excreted in the urine.

Excretion of abnormal amounts of one or more amino acids in the urine, usually as a result of a genetic disease. See also amino acid disorders.

An excess in the urine of amino acids. Occurs in fanconi's syndrome, a familial renal disease of Norwegian elkhounds and Basenji dogs, and as a predisposing factor in the development of cystine uroliths.

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