Disease or Syndrome
hypercholesterolemia Audio
hy·per·cho·les·ter·ol·e·mi·a [ hahy-per-kuh-les-ter-uh-lee-mee-uh ]
Subclass of:
Hyperlipidemia
Etymology:
Greek hyper = excess + chole = bile + Greek stereos = solid + Latin oleum = oil + haima = blood + -ia = condition
Hence an excess of cholesterol in the blood.
Definitions related to hypercholesterolemia:
  • A condition with abnormally high levels of CHOLESTEROL in the blood. It is defined as a cholesterol value exceeding the 95th percentile for the population.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • Abnormally high levels of cholesterol in the blood.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • An increased concentration of cholesterol in the blood.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2025
  • High levels of cholesterol in the blood.
    Harvard Dictionary of Health Terms
    Harvard Medical Publishing, 2011
  • Hypercholesterolemia, an elevation of total cholesterol (TC) and/or LDL-cholesterol or non-HDL-cholesterol (defined as the subtraction of HDL-cholesterol from total cholesterol) in the blood, is also often referred to as dyslipidemia, to encompass the fact that it might be accompanied by a decrease in HDL-cholesterol or an increase in...
    Epocrates
    Athenahealth, Inc., 2019
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