Definition of Lipoidemia

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


Medical Definition of Lipoidemia

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 Lipoidemia

lipogrammatists
lipograms
lipogranuloma
lipogranulomatosis
lipohemia
lipoic
lipoic acid
lipoid
lipoid granuloma
lipoid granulomatosis
lipoid nephrosis
lipoid proteinosis
lipoid theory of narcosis
lipoidaemia
lipoidal
lipoidemia (current term)
lipoidosis
lipoidosis corneae
lipoidosis cutis et mucosae
lipoids
lipolipoidosis
lipolitic
lipolyses
lipolysis
lipolytic
lipolyze
lipoma
lipoma annulare colli
lipoma arborescens
lipoma capsulare

Literary usage of Lipoidemia

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

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"In all of these 7 A critical study of the histopathology of vitally stained animals, diabetic lipoidemia cases and cholesterin-fed animals as compared with ..."

2. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"When these increase, we use the term, lipoidemia or ... Diminution in lipoidemia also occurs when emaciation becomes marked, even if it is concealed by body ..."

3. The Ductless Glandular Diseases by Wilhelm Falta (1916)
"They found the lipoidemia also after castration and in the climacteric period. I would refer it especially to the cessation of the activities of the ..."

4. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"It is the activity of the follicular apparatus of the ovary, alone, that stops during pregnancy and leads to the lipoidemia of pregnancy similar to that ..."

5. The Harvey Lectures by Harvey Society of New York, New York Academy of Medicine (1918)
"... increased out of proportion to the neutral fat and their suggestion of the name lipoidemia instead of lipemia have been overthrown by more recent work. ..."

6. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"The experiments showed that lipoidemia or hypercholesteremia alone is sufficient to induce the described changes in the aorta. For the production of aortic ..."

7. Practice of Medicine by Frederick Tice (1921)
"In recent years a few cases of diabetes associated with lipoidemia have been reported in which cellular hyperplasia was noted especially in the spleen, ..."

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