Definition of Glucose tolerance test

1. Noun. Test of the body's ability to metabolize carbohydrates; used in the diagnosis of hypoglycemia and diabetes mellitus.


Medical Definition of Glucose tolerance test

1. A special test where the blood glucose is measure in intervals after a glucose-rich meal is taken, a test used for diagnosing diabetes. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glucose Tolerance Test

glucose/fructose
glucose 1-phosphate
glucose clamp technique
glucose dehydrogenase
glucose dehydrogenases
glucose effect
glucose intolerance
glucose isomerase
glucose oxidase
glucose oxidase method
glucose oxidase paper strip test
glucose oxyhydrase
glucose phosphomutase
glucose related protein
glucose tolerance factor
glucose tolerance test (current term)
glucoselike
glucosephosphate dehydrogenase
glucosephosphate dehydrogenase deficiency
glucosephosphate isomerase deficiency
glucoseptanoside
glucoseptanosides
glucoses
glucosic
glucosidase
glucosidase inhibitor
glucosidases
glucosidation
glucoside
glucosides

Literary usage of Glucose tolerance test

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

1. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1922)
"As time went on it became impossible to keep her on a definite diet, so that in March, 1920, at the time of the first glucose tolerance test, she was eating ..."

2. Guide To Clinical Preventive Services by U. S. Preventive Services Task Force (1989)
"Recommendation: An oral glucose tolerance test for gestational diabetes mellitus is recommended for all pregnant women between 24 and 28 weeks of gestation. ..."

3. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"In addition to the patient, the person actually preparing the meals must also understand the diet TABLE 24-1 glucose tolerance test* "Standardization of the ..."

4. Getting Off the Hook: Treatment of Drug Addiction and Social Disorders by Jurriaan Plesman (1986)
"Twenty nine subjects following the glucose tolerance test (GTT) showed mental confusion as measured by the SST, compared with 38 subjects who scored above ..."

5. Guide to Clinical Preventive Services: Report of the U. S. Preventive by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"The diagnosis of GDM is traditionally based on two or more abnormal values during a 3-hour glucose tolerance test using 100 g glucose.22'27 NDDG diagnostic ..."

6. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"Glucose tolerance status was established by medical history and a 75-g oral glucose tolerance test. Coronary heart disease was determined by medical history ..."

7. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1922)
"It has seemed of interest, on this account, to observe the results of an alimentary glucose tolerance test in a series of nondiabetic obese patients in an ..."

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