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macrolipasemia

macrolipasemia noun: the presence of macrolipases in the blood; when clinically detected, macrolipasemia has usually produced hyperlipasemia because renal clearance does not handle the macromolecules of enzyme in the same way that it would handle normal-sized enzyme molecules.

Noun

macrolipasemia (usually uncountable, plural macrolipasemias)

  1. (usually) The presence of macrolipases in the blood; when clinically detected, macrolipasemia has usually produced hyperlipasemia because renal clearance does not handle the macromolecules of enzyme in the same way that it would handle normal-sized enzyme molecules.
    • We report the fourth case of simultaneous macroamylasemia and macrolipasemia. A 39-year-old woman had been treated for systemic lupus erythematosus from 1982 to 1993. She was found to have an unexplained increase in serum amylase and lipase activities since 1996. […] In the situation of atypical...2000, Goto H, Wakui H, Komatsuda A, Imai H, Miura AB, Fujita K, “Simultaneous macroamylasemia and macrolipasemia in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus in remission”, in Internal Medicine...

Forms of macrolipasemia

pluralmacrolipasemias

Origin of macrolipasemia

From macrolipase + -emia.

Questions about macrolipasemia

What does macrolipasemia mean?
Macrolipasemia means the presence of macrolipases in the blood; when clinically detected, macrolipasemia has usually produced hyperlipasemia because renal clearance does not handle the macromolecules of enzyme in the same way that it would handle normal-sized enzyme molecules.
What part of speech is macrolipasemia?
Macrolipasemia is a noun.
What is the plural of macrolipasemia?
The plural of macrolipasemia is macrolipasemias.

Words near macrolipasemia in the dictionary

  1. macroligands
  2. macrolike
  3. macrolinguistic
  4. macrolinguistics
  5. macrolipase
  6. macrolipasemia
  7. macrolipasemias
  8. macrolipases
  9. macrolipophagy
  10. macrolith
  11. macrolithic

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