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hypercaloric

hypercaloric adjective: extremely dense or abundant in calories.

Adjective

hypercaloric (comparative more hypercaloric, superlative most hypercaloric)

  1. Extremely dense or abundant in calories.
    • Metabolically-normal (n = 12) and metabolically-abnormal (n = 8) obese people, defined as having low or high intrahepatic triglyceride (IHTG) content, respectively, but matched on body mass index (BMI) and fat mass, were prescribed a hypercaloric diet for 7–8 weeks, until they gained ~6% of their...2015, Elisa Fabbrini, Faidon Magkos, “Hepatic Steatosis as a Marker of Metabolic Dysfunction”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 7, →DOI

Forms of hypercaloric

comparativemore hypercaloric
superlativemost hypercaloric

Origin of hypercaloric

From hyper- + caloric.

Questions about hypercaloric

What does hypercaloric mean?
Hypercaloric means extremely dense or abundant in calories.
What part of speech is hypercaloric?
Hypercaloric is an adjective.

Words near hypercaloric in the dictionary

  1. hypercalculated
  2. hypercalculia
  3. hypercalcuria
  4. hypercall
  5. hypercalls
  6. hypercaloric
  7. hypercalorific
  8. hypercalprotectinemia
  9. hypercane
  10. hypercanes
  11. hypercannibalism

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