| Library / English Dictionary |
LIPIDOSIS
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A disorder of lipid metabolism; abnormal levels of certain fats accumulate in the body
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("lipidosis" is a kind of...):
metabolic disorder (a disorder or defect of metabolism)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lipidosis"):
abetalipoproteinemia (a rare inherited disorder of fat metabolism; characterized by severe deficiency of beta-lipoproteins and abnormal red blood cells (acanthocytes) and abnormally low cholesterol levels)
Gaucher's disease (a rare chronic disorder of lipid metabolism of genetic origin)
Niemann-Pick disease (a disorder of lipid metabolism that is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait)
infantile amaurotic idiocy; Sachs disease; Tay-Sachs; Tay-Sachs disease (a hereditary disorder of lipid metabolism occurring most frequently in individuals of Jewish descent in eastern Europe; accumulation of lipids in nervous tissue results in death in early childhood)
