🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

lipemia

Pronunciation / Transliteration: lipemia

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Lipemia/lɪˈpiː.mi.ə/
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"La lipemia è stata diagnosticata durante il controllo medico."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A medical condition characterized by an excess of lipids in the blood.

    "The patient's lipemia was evident during the blood test, showing elevated triglyceride levels."
  2. 2

    A state of having a high concentration of fat in the blood, often associated with metabolic disorders.

    "Lipemia can complicate the interpretation of laboratory results, leading to misdiagnosis."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'lipemia' is derived from the Greek word 'lipos', meaning fat, combined with the suffix '-emia', which denotes a condition of the blood. It emerged in medical terminology in the late 19th century as a way to describe the presence of excess lipids in the bloodstream.

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