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FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Congenital disorder characterized by high levels of cholesterol and early development of atherosclerosis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("familial hypercholesterolemia" is a kind of...):
monogenic disease; monogenic disorder (an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes)
hypercholesteremia; hypercholesterolemia (the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the cells and plasma of the blood; associated with the risk of atherosclerosis)
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