hyperuricemia
noun
hyperuricemia is a noun meaning “An abnormally high level of uric acid in one's blood” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-U-R-I-C-E-M-I-A, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hyperuricemia is hyperuricemias.
What does hyperuricemia mean?
noun
- 1
An abnormally high level of uric acid in one's blood.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hyperuricemia
- hyperuricemias plural
- hyperuricaemia UK
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hyperuricemia?
Hyperuricemia appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th 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).
Hyperuricemia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense high level of uric acid:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hyperuricémie |
| Portuguese | hiperuricemia |
| Spanish | hiperuricemia |
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 hyperuricemia come from?
From hyper- + uric + -emia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).