| Namespace | MPheno.ontology | Obsolete | false |
| description | anomaly in the process that results in the complete oxidation of a long-chain fatty acid, beginning with the addition of coenzyme A to a fatty acid, with successive cycles of reactions during each of which the fatty acid is shortened by a two-carbon fragment removed as acetyl coenzyme A; the cycle continues until only two or three carbons remain (as acetyl-CoA or propionyl-CoA respectively) |