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hypercholesterolemias

hypercholesterolemias is the plural 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

Questions about hypercholesterolemias

What is hypercholesterolemias the plural of?
Hypercholesterolemias is the plural of hypercholesterolemia.

Words near hypercholesterolemias in the dictionary

  1. hypercholesterolaemia
  2. hypercholesterolaemias
  3. hypercholesterolaemic
  4. hypercholesterolaemics
  5. hypercholesterolemia
  6. hypercholesterolemias
  7. hypercholesterolemic
  8. hypercholesterolemics
  9. hypercholinergic
  10. hypercholosterolemia
  11. hyperchondria

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