HYPERGLYCEMIA

hyperglycemia, hyperglycaemia

(noun) abnormally high blood sugar usually associated with diabetes

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

hyperglycemia (countable and uncountable, plural hyperglycemias)

(pathology) An unusually high concentration of sugar in the blood

Antonyms

• hypoglycemia

Coordinate terms

• euglycemia

• glycemia (polysemic; may be hypernym, synonym, or coordinate term, depending on sense used)

• normoglycemia

Source: Wiktionary



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