hypercalcemia
noun
hypercalcemia is a noun meaning “The presence of an unusually high concentration of calcium in the blood” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-C-A-L-C-E-M-I-A, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hypercalcemia is hypercalcemias.
What does hypercalcemia mean?
noun
- 1
The presence of an unusually high concentration of calcium in the blood.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hypercalcemia
- hypercalcemias plural
- hypercalcaemia
- hypercalcæmia
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hypercalcemia?
Hypercalcemia appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 118,441st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Hypercalcemia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense condition:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Hyperkalzämie |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does hypercalcemia come from?
From hyper- + calcemia or hyper- + calc- + -emia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).