lipemia

Other forms of lipemia

plural

lipemias·

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 lipemia

What does lipemia mean?

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

How many syllables are in lipemia?

lipemia has 4 syllables and divides as li-pe-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 lipemia?

Close synonyms include lipaemia, lipidemia, lipidaemia, lipoidemia, lipoidaemia. 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 lipemia a common word?

lipemia is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.