Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
lipæmia .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) The presence of an abnormally high concentration of lipid in the blood. Called also
hyperlipemia ,hyperlipidemia ,hyperlipoidemia ,lipidemia ,lipoidemia .
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- noun medicine An excess of
lipids in theblood
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun presence of excess lipids in the blood
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Examples
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Ahrens believed that the fat-induced lipemia was probably ‘an exaggerated form of the normal biological process which occurs in all people on high-carbohydrate diets.’
Ask Gary Taubes a question | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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Very low-carbohydrate and low-fat diets affect fasting lipids and postprandial lipemia differently in overweight men.
Saturated fat debate | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2006
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We have used stored sera and hemolysis, lipemia or contaminated sera could result into false positive or false negative results.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Deepti Joshi et al. 2009
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