Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An excess of cholesterol in the blood.
- n. A familial disorder that is characterized by an extremely high concentration of cholesterol in the blood and cells.
Wiktionary
- n. medicine An excess of cholesterol in the blood.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the cells and plasma of the blood; associated with the risk of atherosclerosis
Etymologies
- From hyper- + cholesterol + -emia. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Other than egg allergies, vegan diet, or the need to avoid any dietary cholesterol in hypercholesterolemia, eggs are very healthy.”
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“Brown and Goldstein have discovered that the underlying mechanism to the severe hereditary familial hypercholesterolemia is a complete, or partial, lack of functional LDL-receptors.”
“Dr. Enig and Sally Fallon call hypercholesterolemia an invented disease, a problem that emerged when health professionals learned how to measure cholesterol levels in the blood.”
“This condition is called hypercholesterolemia, a long word that simply means "too much cholesterol.”
“One such condition includes homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia, which is rarer than the heterozygous form.”
“Has your doctor said you have high cholesterol (called hypercholesterolemia)?”
“It is well known that not every individual with known atherogenic risk factors, such as hypercholesterolemia, develops atherosclerosis.”
“Lack of ApoE results in severe hypercholesterolemia which is necessary for the development of the disease.”
“While CVD can be sub-classified into categories such as hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, heart attack and stroke, the Frost research focuses on cholesterol reduction because functional ingredient solutions are most advanced in this area.”
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