hyperkalemia
noun
hyperkalemia is a noun meaning “The condition of having an abnormally high concentration of potassium ions in the blood (above the reference range)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-K-A-L-E-M-I-A, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hyperkalemia is hyperkalemias.
What does hyperkalemia mean?
noun
- 1
The condition of having an abnormally high concentration of potassium ions in the blood (above the reference range).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hyperkalemia
- hyperkalemias plural
- hyperkalaemia
- hyperkalæmia
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hyperkalemia?
Hyperkalemia appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 111,684th 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).
Hyperkalemia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the condition of having an abnormally high concentration of potassium ions in th:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hyperkaliémie |
| Portuguese | hiperpotassemia |
| Spanish | hiperpotasemia, hipercalemia |
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 hyperkalemia come from?
From hyper- + kalemia or hyper- + kal(ium) + -emia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).