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hypercolesterolemia

hypercolesterolemia is the misspelling 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 hypercolesterolemia

What is hypercolesterolemia the misspelling of?
Hypercolesterolemia is the misspelling of hypercholesterolemia.

Words near hypercolesterolemia in the dictionary

  1. hypercognizes
  2. hypercognizing
  3. hypercohomology
  4. hypercoiled
  5. hypercoiling
  6. hypercolesterolemia
  7. hypercollinearity
  8. hypercolonization
  9. hypercolonize
  10. hypercolonized
  11. hypercolor

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