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Definition of Hyperglycaemia

1. Noun. Abnormally high blood sugar usually associated with diabetes.

Definition of Hyperglycaemia

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of hyperglycemia) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Hyperglycaemia

1. Too high a level of glucose (sugar) in the blood, a sign that diabetes is out of control. It occurs when the body does not have enough insulin or cannot use the insulin it does have to turn glucose into energy. Hyperglycaemia may be seen in diabetes mellitus, Cushing's disease and Cushing's syndrome. Signs of hyperglycaemia are a great thirst, a dry mouth, and a need to urinate often. For people with insulin-dependent diabetes, hyperglycaemia may lead to diabetic ketoacidosis. Origin: Gr. Glykys = sweet, haima = blood (09 Oct 1997)

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Literary usage of Hyperglycaemia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Forty years in the medical profession, 1858-1898 by John Janvier Black (1900)
"... Matter—Tuberculosis and Diabetes—Pancreatic Lesions—Carl von Noorden—The Liver and Glycogen—Fat—hyperglycaemia—Causes of Diabetes Mellitus— Mayer's ..."

2. Diet in Health and Disease by Julius Friedenwald, John Ruhräh (1907)
"The consequence would be an accumulation of sugar in the blood, and a persistent hyperglycaemia that could be detected by analysis. ..."

3. The Harvey Lectures by Harvey Society of New York, New York Academy of Medicine (1915)
"but that as the hyperglycaemia decreased, the blood became more diluted. As this occurred, there was evidence of increased combustion of carbohydrates, ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"That if thoracic lymph from a digesting dog be injected into the systemic circulation of a cat, hyperglycaemia and glycosuria again result, though not in as ..."

5. New Aspects of Diabetes: Pathology and Treatment by Karl Harko von Noorden (1912)
"hyperglycaemia or glycosuria. These coincidences are surely more than accidental ... However, hyperglycaemia always accompanies the raised caloric formation ..."

6. Review of American Chemical Research by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1903)
"This hyperglycaemia makes its appearance immediately after the ... Simultaneously with hyperglycaemia occurs a decided diminution in the time of ..."

7. Clinical treatises on the pathology and therapy of disorders of metabolism by Karl Harko von Noorden (1905)
"As I have already remarked, it has been generally recognised since the time of Claude Bernard's classical researches on the subject, that hyperglycaemia is ..."

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