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FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA

Dictionary entry overview: What does familial hypercholesterolemia mean?

• FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA (noun)
The noun FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA has 1 sense:

1. congenital disorder characterized by high levels of cholesterol and early development of atherosclerosis

Familiarity information: FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Congenital disorder characterized by high levels of cholesterol and early development of atherosclerosis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("familial hypercholesterolemia" is a kind of...):

monogenic disease; monogenic disorder (an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes)

hypercholesteremia; hypercholesterolemia (the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the cells and plasma of the blood; associated with the risk of atherosclerosis)

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