The presence of galactose in the urine, typically indicating a metabolic problem with galactose processing.
From 'galactose' (milk sugar) + '-uria' (presence in urine), describing the symptom of galactose being excreted in urine.
Finding galactose in urine is a red flag for doctors—it means the body couldn't process this sugar through normal pathways, so it's spilling into the kidneys, a key diagnostic sign for galactosemia and other metabolic disorders.
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