LIPIDOSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lipidosis mean? 

• LIPIDOSIS (noun)
  The noun LIPIDOSIS has 1 sense:

1. a disorder of lipid metabolism; abnormal levels of certain fats accumulate in the body

  Familiarity information: LIPIDOSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIPIDOSIS (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)