familial hypercholesterolemia

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

   Broaderhypercholesterolemiamonogenic disorder

Questions about familial hypercholesterolemia

What does familial hypercholesterolemia mean?

familial hypercholesterolemia means "congenital disorder characterized by high levels of cholesterol and early development of atherosclerosis".

Is familial hypercholesterolemia a common word?

familial hypercholesterolemia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.