Hypercholesterolemia
Alternative forms
Origin
From - + cholesterol + -.
Full definition of hypercholesterolemia
Noun
hypercholesterolemia
(countable and uncountable; plural hypercholesterolemias)- (medicine) An excess of cholesterol in the blood.
- 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial 2004, p. 260:An inherited predisposition to heart disease, called familial hypercholesterolaemia, results from a rare ‘spelling change’ in the gene for cholesterol receptors.