hypercholesterolemia

noun

hypercholesterolemia

noun

Etymology From hyper- + cholesterol + -emia.

1

Medicine, Sciences An excess of cholesterol in the blood.

An inherited predisposition to heart disease, called familial hypercholesterolaemia, results from a rare ‘spelling change’ in the gene for cholesterol receptors.1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 260:

Derived terms: antihypercholesterolemia
Related terms: hypercholesterolemic
Hypernyms: hyperlipidemia

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