Definition of Blood sugar

1. Noun. Glucose in the bloodstream.

Exact synonyms: Blood Glucose
Generic synonyms: Glucose

Definition of Blood sugar

1. Noun. (medicine) glucose in the blood. ¹

2. Noun. (medicine) the amount of glucose in a person's blood. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blood Sugar

blood serum
blood serums
blood sister
blood smear
blood spavin
blood specimen collection
blood sport
blood spots
blood stains
blood sub
blood subs
blood substitute
blood substitutes
blood substitution
blood substitutions
blood sugar (current term)
blood supply
blood tax
blood test
blood tests
blood transfusion
blood transfusion reaction
blood tumour
blood type
blood types
blood typing
blood urea nitrogen
blood vessel
blood vessel prosthesis
blood vessel prosthesis implantation

Literary usage of Blood sugar

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

1. Diet in Health and Disease by Julius Friedenwald, John Ruhräh (1907)
"In cases complicated with nephritis without uraemia : Sugar in 1000 Parts of Blood. Sugar in 1000 Parts of Urine. 3*23 =»20 (two estimations). ..."

2. The Harvey Lectures by Harvey Society of New York, New York Academy of Medicine (1915)
"blood sugar.—Sugar is also stored in the body in the form of blood sugar. The normal quantity of sugar in the blood of healthy individuals varies between ..."

3. Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage: An Account of Recent by Walter Bradford Cannon (1920)
"Before these possibilities are considered, however, the value of the increased blood sugar itself will be discussed. THE UTILITY OF THE INCREASED BLOOD ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"The blood-sugar estimations were made five hours after breakfast and gave normal ... The blood sugar findings are such as one would expect in mild diabetes. ..."

5. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1916)
"In Experiment 35 a drop in the blood sugar from 1.81 to ... Such estimations indicate that the blood sugar content would be about 7.7 to 7.9 per cent if all ..."

6. Contributions to Medical and Biological Research by William Osler (1919)
"STUDIES ON blood sugar EFFECTS UPON THE blood sugar OF THE REPEATED INDIGESTION OF GLUCOSE BY Louis HAMMAN IN a communication to the Archives of Internal ..."

7. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"The feeding of loo g. sugar increased the blood sugar content in normal ... With small amts. of blood sugar it gives somewhat lower values than the old Bang ..."

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