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aleptinemia

aleptinemia

English

Noun

aleptinemia (uncountable)

  1. (rare, medicine) The absence of the hormone leptin in the bloodstream
    • 2002 May 15, D.B. Savage and S. O’Rahilly, “Leptin: a novel therapeutic role in lipodystrophy”, in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, volume 109, issue 10, pages 1285-6:
      Thus, we now know of two distinct human diseases where the correction of near aleptinemia is of major therapeutic benefit.