hyperinsulinemic
adjective
hyperinsulinemic is an adjective meaning “Suffering from or characterized by hyperinsulinemia, an excessively high level of insulin in the blood” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-I-N-S-U-L-I-N-E-M-I-C, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does hyperinsulinemic mean?
adjective
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Suffering from or characterized by hyperinsulinemia, an excessively high level of insulin in the blood
The patient was hyperinsulinemic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hyperinsulinemic
- more hyperinsulinemic comparative
- most hyperinsulinemic superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hyperinsulinemic?
Hyperinsulinemic appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th 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 hyperinsulinemic come from?
From hyper- + insulinemic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).