hyperemia
noun
hyperemia is a noun meaning “excess of blood in a body part” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-E-M-I-A, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hyperemia is hyperemias.
What does hyperemia mean?
noun
- 1
excess of blood in a body part.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hyperemia
- hyperemias plural
- hyperaemia
- hyperæmia
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hyperemia?
Hyperemia appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th 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).
Where does hyperemia come from?
From Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér, “over”) + αἷμα (haîma, “blood”), equivalent to hyper- + -emia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).