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Definition: LDL |
LDLNoun1. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood; composed of moderate amount of protein and a large amount of cholesterol; high levels are thought to be associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease and atherosclerosis. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | LDL ["LDL: A Logic-Based Data-Language", S. Tsur et al, Proc VLDB 1986, Kyoto Japan, Aug 1986, pp.33-41]. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Health | Low-density lipoprotein. Lipoprotein that contains most of the cholesterol in the blood. LDL carries cholesterol to the tissues of the body, including the arteries. A high level of LDL increases the risk of heart disease. LDL typically contains 60 to 70 percent of the total serum cholesterol and both are directly correlated with CHD risk. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
LDL | Danish | Lipoprotein med lav densitet | Medicine |
LDL | Dutch | Lage-dichtheid-lipoproteïne | Medicine |
LDL | English | Low density lipoproteins | Chemistry, Medicine |
LDL | Finnish | Low density lipoprotein | Medicine |
LDL | French | Lipoprotéine basse densité | Medicine |
LDL | German | Lipoprotein geringer Dichte | Medicine |
LDL | Portuguese | Lipoproteína de baixa densidade | Medicine |
LDL | Spanish | Lipoproteína de baja densidad | Medicine |
LDL | Swedish | Lätt lipoprotein | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: LDLSynonyms: beta-lipoprotein (n), low-density lipoprotein (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: LDL |
| English words defined with "LDL": atorvastatin ♦ LDL cholesterol, Lipitor ♦ oxidized LDL cholesterol ♦ very low density lipoprotein, VLDL. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "LDL": Apolipoproteins B, Apolipoproteins E ♦ familial hypercholesterolaemia ♦ Hypercholesterolemia, Familial ♦ LDL1, Lipoproteins, LDL Cholesterol, Lipoproteins, VLDL Cholesterol, Lipoprotein-X ♦ TLAs. (references) |
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Health | Studies have shown that estrogen acts to increase levels of HDL while decreasing LDL levels. (references) | |
If left untreated, elevated LDL and total cholesterol levels can increase the risk of stroke, heart attack, and death. (references) | ||
The LDL receptor normally plays a critical role in regulating blood cholesterol levels in all mammals, including humans. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "LDL" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 54.84% of the time. "LDL" is used about 62 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 54.84% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 30.65% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (common) | 12.9% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.61% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 62 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "LDL": LDL cholesterol ♦ oxidized LDL cholesterol. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "LDL": ldl-cholesterol. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ldl | 238 |
ldl cholesterol | 191 |
hdl ldl | 93 |
cholesterol hdl ldl | 52 |
lower ldl | 20 |
ldl lowering | 17 |
ldl receptor | 17 |
ldl level | 16 |
ldl cholesterol level | 10 |
high ldl | 10 |
reduce ldl | 8 |
ldl hdl cholesterol level | 5 |
goal ldl | 4 |
ldl apheresis | 4 |
diet ldl | 4 |
ldl oxidized | 4 |
ldl subclass | 4 |
bad cholesterol ldl | 4 |
low ldl | 3 |
direct ldl | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words containing "LDL": baldly, boldly, childless, childlessness, childlessnesses, childlier, childliest, childlike, childlikeness, childlikenesses, childly, coldly, manifoldly, mildly, otherworldliness, otherworldlinesses, otherworldly, ribaldly, unchildlike, unworldliness, unworldlinesses, unworldly, weldless, wildland, wildlands, wildlife, wildling, wildlings, wildly, worldlier, worldliest, worldliness, worldlinesses, worldling, worldlings, worldly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "d-l-l" | |
+1 letter: dell, dill, doll, dull. | |
+2 letters: aldol, allod, dally, dells, delly, dills, dilly, dolls, dolly, drill, droll, dulls, dully, dwell, idyll, ladle. | |
+3 letters: aldols, allied, allods, allude, aludel, baldly, ballad, balled, bedell, belled, billed, boldly, bolled, bulled, called, celled, coldly, culled, dalles, dilled, dollar, dolled, dollop, drills, drolls, drolly, dually, duelli, duello, dulled, duller, dwells, felled, filled, fulled, galled, gelled, gilled, gladly, gulled, helled, hilled, hulled, idylls, jelled, killed, ladled, ladler, ladles, lalled, lewdly, lilied, lilted, lolled, lordly, loudly, lulled, malled, melled, mildly, milled, mulled, nilled, nulled, palled, pallid, pilled, polled, pulled, rilled, rolled, tilled, tolled, walled, welled, wildly, willed, yelled. | |
+4 letters: adultly, alcalde, allayed, alleged, allodia, allowed, alloyed, allseed, alluded, alludes, allured, alodial, aludels, ballade, ballads, bedells, bedroll, bellied, blandly, blindly, bollard, bulldog, bullied, cadelle, cedilla, childly, chilled, collard, collide, collied, colloid, collude, cullied, dallied, dallier, dallies, daylily, dellies, dewfall, dialled, diallel, dialler, dillies, distill, doleful, dollars, dollied, dollies, dolling, dollish, dollops, drilled, driller, drolled, droller, drywall, ducally, duelled, dueller, duellos, dullard, dullest, dulling, dullish, dwelled, dweller, elderly, flailed, fluidal, fluidly, frilled, fuelled, gadwall, gallied, gelidly, gillied, godlily, grilled, gullied, halloed, helloed, hilloed, holdall, hollaed, holland, holloed, hulloed, ideally, idyllic, illumed, indwell, jellied, jollied, killdee, knelled, knolled, labeled, ladlers, ladling, lairdly, lalland, landler, lapeled, leveled, libeled, lidless, lividly, loculed, lowland, lucidly, luridly, mallard, medulla, milldam, modally, mudsill, nodally, oddball, paludal, pollard, prilled, psyllid, quelled, quilled, rallied, redpoll, redrill, sallied, sculled, shelled, shilled, skilled, skulled, smelled, snelled, solidly, spalled, spelled, spilled, stalled, stilled, sullied, swelled, swilled, tallied, tidally, trilled, trolled, twilled, ullaged, validly, vialled, wadmoll, willied, woolled, worldly. | |
+5 letters: alcaldes, alderfly, aldolase, alkaloid, allodial, allodium, allotted, allseeds, alluding, annulled, anodally, anvilled, appalled, arillode, arilloid, ballades, balladic, balladry, balloted, bdellium, beadroll, bedrolls, begalled, bellbird, bellowed, bevelled, billeted, billfold, billhead, billiard, billowed, birdcall, bloodily, bollards, bollixed, bolloxed, bordello, bowelled, brailled, bridally, bulldogs, bulldoze, bulleted, bullhead, bullweed, caballed, cadelles, calendal, callused, canalled, carolled, caudally, caudillo, cavilled, cedillas, cellared, clodpole, clodpoll, cloudily, cloudlet, collaged, collards, collared, collated, colleted, collided, collider, collides, colloids, colluded, colluder, colludes, cordelle, cupelled, dalliers, dallying, deadfall, dentally, devilled, dewfalls, diallage, diallers, dialling, diallist, diluvial, disallow, disloyal, dismally, distally, distills, djellaba, docilely, dolloped, dollying, doorbell, doorsill, dorsally, dowelled, downfall, downhill, drillers, drilling, drollery, drollest, drolling, drumroll, drywalls, duckbill, duellers, duelling, duellist, dulcetly, dullards, dullness, dumbbell, dunghill, duxelles, dwellers, dwelling, elatedly, elidible, enrolled, equalled, excelled, expelled, extolled, falderal, falderol, fallowed, fellated, fellowed, feudally, filleted, filliped, filmland, flatland, floodlit, floridly, foldable, folderol, followed, fullered, gabelled, gadwalls, galleted, galliard, galloped, gallused, gavelled, gildhall, gladiola, gladioli, gladlier, glandule, goldenly, goodwill, grillade, gruelled, halliard, halloaed, hallooed, hallowed, handball, handbell, handbill, hardball, hilloaed, hillside, holdable, holdalls, hollands, hollered, holloaed, hollooed, hollowed, hovelled, hulloaed, idyllist, illiquid, impelled, indwells, inwalled, jewelled, kallidin, keloidal, killdeer, killdees, labelled, ladleful, ladylike, ladylove, ladypalm, lallands, landfall, landfill, landlady, landlers, landless, landline, landlord, landslid, landslip, lapelled, lardlike, laudable, laudably, laureled, leadenly, leadless, lendable, levelled, libelled, liguloid, limpidly, limuloid, lipoidal, liquidly, lodicule, lolloped, lordless, lordlier, lordlike, lordling, loudlier, lowlands, mallards, mandrill, medalled, medallic, medially, medullae, medullar, medullas, mellowed, metalled, milldams, milleped, milliard, milliped, millpond, modelled, modeller, moldable, mudsills, nailfold, nielloed, oddballs, oeillade, oldstyle, paillard, palladia, palladic, pallidly, panelled, pedalled, pelleted, pellucid, perilled, petalled, phyllode, phylloid, pillaged, pillared, pillowed, placidly, playland, plowland, pollards, pollened, polluted, predrill, psyllids, radially, ravelled, rebelled, rebilled, recalled, redpolls, redrills, refelled, refilled, repelled, repolled, rerolled, revelled, ribaldly, rivalled, roadkill, rondelle, rowelled, sallowed, scrolled, seldomly, sepalled, shrilled, sidehill, sidewall, slalomed, slidable, slumlord, spadille, squalled, stolidly, strolled, tallaged, tallowed, thalloid, thralled, thrilled, tillered, totalled, towelled, trollied, ululated, umbelled, unallied, unbilled, uncalled, undulled, unfilled, ungalled, unmilled, unpolled, unrolled, untilled, unwalled, unwilled, upwelled, veiledly, villadom, volleyed, wadmolls, walleyed, walloped, wallowed, weldable, weldless, welladay, welldoer, wellhead, wildfowl, wildland, wildlife, wildling, willowed, willyard, windfall, windgall, windmill, yellowed, yodelled, yodeller. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 44 4C |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. -.. .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01000100 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L D L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0044 004C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)463846 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Abbreviations 10. Acronyms 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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