macrolipasemia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The presence of macrolipases in the blood; when clinically detected, macrolipasemia has usually produced hyperlipasemia because renal clearance does not handle the macromolecules of enzyme in the same way that it would handle normal-sized enzyme molecules.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "We report the fourth case of simultaneous macroamylasemia and macrolipasemia. A 39-year-old woman had been treated for systemic lupus erythematosus from 1982 to 1993. She was found to have an unexplained increase in serum amylase and lipase activities since 1996. […] In the situation of atypical clinical features associated with hyperamylasemia and hyperlipasemia, the possibility of macroenzymes should be considered."
Etymology
From macrolipase + -emia.