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porphyria [pȯr′fir·ē·ə] (medicine) A usually hereditary, pathologic disorder of porphyrin metabolism characterized by porphyrinuria and photosensitivity. Porphyria comes in a winter storm to show her devotion, and her lover strangles her with her own tresses. [Br. Poetry: Browning Porphyria’s Lover in Magill IV, 247] See : Love, Unrequited How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Follow-up studies of porphyric mothers reported incidents of fetal deaths (Gocmen et al. The license area contains arc-magmatic rocks of Tertiary age, largely consisting of grano-dioritic intrusives and related porphyric andesites, typical of volcanic arc environments, where epithermal gold-silver mineralization can be expected. Disseminated and veinlet chalcopyrite and pyrite is associated with an altered feldspar porphyric intrusion, and mineralization occurs in both the intrusion and surrounding hornfelsed sedimentary rocks. |
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