Definition of Lipidemia

1. Noun. Presence of excess lipids in the blood.


Definition of Lipidemia

1. Noun. (medicine) The presence of lipids in the blood ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Lipidemia

1. Presence of an abnormally high amount of lipid in the bloodstream. Origin: Gr. Haima = blood This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lipidemia

lipid bilayers
lipid granulomatosis
lipid histiocytosis
lipid keratopathy
lipid mobilization
lipid peroxidation
lipid peroxides
lipid pneumonia
lipid profile
lipid storage diseases
lipidaemia
lipidated
lipidation
lipidations
lipide
lipidemia (current term)
lipidemic
lipides
lipidic
lipidoid
lipidoids
lipidologist
lipidologists
lipidology
lipidolytic
lipidome
lipidomes
lipidomic
lipidomics
lipidoses

Literary usage of Lipidemia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"... in the offspring, merous metabolic alterations including -lipidemia (2, 4), apparently related to ised endogenous triglyceride production nd a decreased ..."

2. Mammalian Models for Research on Aging by Bennett J. Cohen, Institute Of Laboratory Animal Resources, National Research Council Staff (1981)
"Sunflower seeds are the food of choice for motivation tests; however, the gerbil develops a high serum lipidemia, traced to sunflower seeds in the diet, ..."

3. Second Report of the Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of ...by Scott M. Grundy by Scott M. Grundy (1997)
"Nonetheless, some authorities favor fibric acids in diabetic patients having combined hyper- lipidemia when hypertriglyceridemia predominates. ..."

4. 5th Report Of The Joint National Committee On Detection, Evaluation, And by DIANE Publishing Company (2004)
"... as evidenced by an increased waist-to-hip ratio above 0.85 in women and 0.95 in men, has also been correlated with hypertension, dys- lipidemia, ..."

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