See Also: Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
validity(dictionary)
Validity(health)
validity(encyclopedia)
validity(medicine)
content validity(medicine)
construct validity(medicine)
Nonempirical Validity(money)
Content validity(health)
face validity(medicine)

symptomatic porphyria (medicine) and validity (sh)


symptomatic porphyria (medicine)


symptomatic porphyria -->
porphyria cutanea tarda


A form of hepatic porphyria (porphyria, hepatic) characterised by photosensitivity resulting in bullae that rupture easily to form shallow ulcers. This condition occurs in two forms: a sporadic, nonfamilial form that begins in middle age and has normal amounts of uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase with diminished activity in the liver; and a familial form in which there is an autosomal dominant inherited deficiency of uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase in the liver and red blood cells.


validity (sh)




In logic, the property of an argument consisting in the fact that the truth of the premises logically guarantees the truth of the conclusion.

Whenever the premises are true, the conclusion must be true, because of the form of the argument. Some arguments that fail to be valid are acceptable on grounds Other than formal logic (e.g., inductively strong arguments), and their conclusions are supported with less than logical necessity. Where the support yields high probability of the conclusion relative to the premises, such arguments are sometimes called inductively valid. In Other purportedly persuasive arguments, the premises actually provide no rational grounds for accepting the conclusion; such defective forms of argument are called fallacies (see fallacy, formal and informal).