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LDL

Definition: LDL

LDL

Noun

1. 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.
 



Specialty Definitions: LDL

DomainDefinitions

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.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: LDL

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.

EntrySourceExpressionField

LDL

DanishLipoprotein med lav densitetMedicine

LDL

DutchLage-dichtheid-lipoproteïneMedicine

LDL

EnglishLow density lipoproteinsChemistry, Medicine

LDL

FinnishLow density lipoproteinMedicine

LDL

FrenchLipoprotéine basse densitéMedicine

LDL

GermanLipoprotein geringer DichteMedicine

LDL

PortugueseLipoproteína de baixa densidadeMedicine

LDL

SpanishLipoproteína de baja densidadMedicine

LDL

SwedishLätt lipoproteinMedicine

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: LDL

Synonyms: beta-lipoprotein (n), low-density lipoprotein (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: LDL

English words defined with "LDL": atorvastatinLDL cholesterol, Lipitoroxidized LDL cholesterolvery low density lipoprotein, VLDL. (references)
Specialty definitions using "LDL": Apolipoproteins B, Apolipoproteins Efamilial hypercholesterolaemiaHypercholesterolemia, FamilialLDL1, Lipoproteins, LDL Cholesterol, Lipoproteins, VLDL Cholesterol, Lipoprotein-XTLAs. (references)

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Commercial Usage: LDL

DomainTitle

Books

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Non-Fiction Usage: LDL

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: LDL

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)54.84%3459,261
Noun (proper)30.65%1980,337
Noun (common)12.9%8124,375
Lexical Verb (infinitive)1.61%1339,140
                    Total100.00%62N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: LDL

Expressions using "LDL": LDL cholesterol oxidized LDL cholesterol. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "LDL": ldl-cholesterol.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LDL

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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
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Derivations: LDL

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).

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Anagrams: LDL

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: LDL


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 44 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01000100 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0044 004C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

463846

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INDEX

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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