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hypercholesterolaemia

hypercholesterolaemia is the alternative spelling of hypercholesterolemia.

Meaning of hypercholesterolemia

Noun

hypercholesterolemia (countable and uncountable, plural hypercholesterolemias)

  1. 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

Forms of hypercholesterolaemia

pluralhypercholesterolaemias

Questions about hypercholesterolaemia

What is hypercholesterolaemia the alternative spelling of?
Hypercholesterolaemia is the alternative spelling of hypercholesterolemia.

Words near hypercholesterolaemia in the dictionary

  1. hypercholesteraemic
  2. hypercholesteremia
  3. hypercholesteremic
  4. hypercholesterinaemia
  5. hypercholesterinemia
  6. hypercholesterolaemia
  7. hypercholesterolaemias
  8. hypercholesterolaemic
  9. hypercholesterolaemics
  10. hypercholesterolemia
  11. hypercholesterolemias

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