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Alternative forms

• hypercholesterolaemia

Noun

hypercholesterolemia ‎(countable and uncountable, plural hypercholesterolemias)

1. (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.‎

Related terms

• hypercholesterolemic

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