anomaly in the amount of ornithine, an amino acid only rarely found in proteins, but which is important in living organisms as an intermediate in the reactions of the urea cycle and in arginine biosynthesis; ornithine is an alpha-amino acid that is pentanoic acid bearing two amino substituents at positions 2 and 5
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