Noun: lipemia li'pee-mee-u
Usage: N. Amer (elsewhere: lipaemia)
Usage: N. Amer (elsewhere: lipaemia)
- Presence of excess lipids in the blood
"The patient's lipemia was evident in the cloudy appearance of the blood sample";
- lipaemia [Brit, Cdn], lipidemia [N. Amer], lipidaemia [Brit, Cdn], lipoidemia [N. Amer], lipoidaemia [Brit, Cdn], hyperlipemia [N. Amer], hyperlipaemia [Brit, Cdn], hyperlipidemia [N. Amer], hyperlipidaemia [Brit, Cdn], hyperlipoidemia [N. Amer], hyperlipoidaemia [Brit, Cdn]
Derived forms: lipemias
Type of: symptom
Encyclopedia: Lipemia