HYPOGLYCEMIA

hypoglycemia, hypoglycaemia

(noun) abnormally low blood sugar usually resulting from excessive insulin or a poor diet

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

hypoglycemia (countable and uncountable, plural hypoglycemias)

(pathology) A too low level of blood glucose.

Synonyms

• hypoglycosemia (rare)

Antonyms

• hyperglycemia

• hyperglycosemia

Coordinate terms

• euglycemia

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

• normoglycemia

Source: Wiktionary



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