hyperlipidaemia

Other forms of hyperlipidaemia

plural

hyperlipidaemias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hyperlipidaemia

What does hyperlipidaemia mean?

hyperlipidaemia means "presence of excess lipids in the blood".

How many syllables are in hyperlipidaemia?

hyperlipidaemia has 8 syllables and divides as hy-per-li-pi-da-e-mi-a under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for hyperlipidaemia?

Close synonyms include lipemia, lipaemia, lipidemia, lipidaemia, lipoidemia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hyperlipidaemia a common word?

hyperlipidaemia 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.