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Definition of Hyperglycemia

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

Definition of Hyperglycemia

1. Noun. (medicine) An unusually high concentration of sugar in the blood ¹

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Definition of Hyperglycemia

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Medical Definition of Hyperglycemia

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 Hyperglycemia

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

1. Thyroid and Thymus by André Crotti (1922)
"Jacob- sen in 1913, Williams and Humphrey, in 1916, showed that injection of considerable amounts of glucose is followed by temporary hyperglycemia. ..."

2. Pathological physiology of internal diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"hyperglycemia in Diabetes hyperglycemia, an increased concentration of blood sugar, is now recognized as a fundamental disturbance in diabetes. ..."

3. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"hyperglycemia in Diabetes hyperglycemia, an increased concentration of blood sugar, is now recognized as a fundamental disturbance in diabetes. ..."

4. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"... diminishing the hyperglycemia, and rendering the kidneys less permeable to sugar; the permeability to chlorids is not affected. ..."

5. Nutrition and Clinical Dietetics by Herbert Swift Carter, Paul Edward Howe, Howard Harris Mason (1921)
"hyperglycemia.—Before proceeding to the discussion of diets in diabetes a word about hyperglycemia is in place, the various causes of which as given by ..."

6. Clinical Hematology: A Practical Guide to the Examination of the Blood with by John C. DaCosta (1901)
"The presence of sugar in excess of this figure, which may be termed hyperglycemia, is met with in diabetes ..."

7. Functional Pathology of Internal Diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"... may play an important part in inducing diabetes in dogs already predisposed to the disease by a partial pancreatectomy. hyperglycemia in Diabetes ..."

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