hypoproteinemia

From hypo- +‎ proteinemia.

hypoproteinemia (countable and uncountable, plural hypoproteinemias)

1. (medicine) A deficiency of protein in the blood.

   Antonyms: hyperproteinemia; proteinemia (usually antonymous)

   Hypernym: dysproteinemia

   Coordinate term: normoproteinemia

   • 1960, Ferdinand Wuhrmann, Charlie Wunderly, The Human Blood Proteins: Methods of Examination and Their Clinical and Practical Significance‎^[1], Grune and Stratton, page 332:

     Under clinical conditions shifts among the fraction associated with total protein values within the normal range of 6.5—7.9 per cent are most frequently encountered, that is associated with normoproteinemia (see figure 96, page 338). Hyperproteinemia associated with obvious increase of the blood proteins is relatively rarely seen in clinical medicine, while serum protein diminution or hypoproteinemia is much more frequently found.

   • 2008, Jiro Jerry Kaneko, John W. Harvey, Michael L. Bruss, “Interpretation of serum protein profiles”, in Clinical Biochemistry of Domestic Animals‎^[2], Academic Press, →ISBN, page 145:

     Decreased albumin is a common form of dysproteinemia. Fundamentally, the decrease can be attributed to either albumin loss or failure of albumin synthesis. Depending on the stage of the disease, it can be associated with either slight hyperproteinemia (acute stage), normoproteinemia (progressive stage), or, in its advanced stages, hypoproteinemia. Therefore, the total serum protein is not a reliable index of albumin status and albumin must be determined.