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Definition of Blood glucose
1. Noun. Glucose in the bloodstream.
Medical Definition of Blood glucose
1. The main sugar that the body makes from the three elements of food--proteins, fats, and carbohydrates--but mostly from carbohydrates. Glucose is the major source of energy for living cells and is carried to each cell through the bloodstream. However, the cells cannot use glucose without the help of insulin. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blood Glucose
Literary usage of Blood glucose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(b) Dextrose in the Blood (Glucose) On account of the growing importance of
studies on hyperglycemia, exact methods of estimating the sugar in the blood ..."
2. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"Glucagon is normally suppressed by elevated blood glucose levels. ... This causes
the blood glucose to rise. As a result, the amount of glucose in the blood ..."
3. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"Glucose production in vivo was estimated by the net increase in blood glucose
twenty minutes following an intraperitoneal injection of 100 ..."
4. Bound for Good Health: A Collection of Age PagesMedi (1993)
"They can usually keep their blood glucose levels near normal by ... blood glucose
levels that are either very high or very low can lead to serious medical ..."
5. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"We have again found that in the normal animal rather low levels of blood glucose
may be found in the early postpartum period. Sometimes the level of blood ..."
6. Nutrient Composition of Rations for Short-term, High-intensity Combat Operations by Institute of Medicine (U. S.), Fnb, High-stress Situations, Committee on Military Nutrition Research, National Academy of Sciences (2006)
"Thus moderate, rather than extreme, fluctuations in blood glucose are ...
The effect of the ration on blood glucose should be moderate for optimal and ..."
7. Guide To Clinical Preventive Services by U. S. Preventive Services Task Force (1989)
"There is a wide overlap in the range of blood glucose concentrations within such
populations. Even within individuals, there is considerable temporal ..."
8. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(b) Dextrose in the Blood (Glucose) On account of the growing importance of
studies on hyperglycemia, exact methods of estimating the sugar in the blood ..."
9. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"Glucagon is normally suppressed by elevated blood glucose levels. ... This causes
the blood glucose to rise. As a result, the amount of glucose in the blood ..."
10. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"Glucose production in vivo was estimated by the net increase in blood glucose
twenty minutes following an intraperitoneal injection of 100 ..."
11. Bound for Good Health: A Collection of Age PagesMedi (1993)
"They can usually keep their blood glucose levels near normal by ... blood glucose
levels that are either very high or very low can lead to serious medical ..."
12. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"We have again found that in the normal animal rather low levels of blood glucose
may be found in the early postpartum period. Sometimes the level of blood ..."
13. Nutrient Composition of Rations for Short-term, High-intensity Combat Operations by Institute of Medicine (U. S.), Fnb, High-stress Situations, Committee on Military Nutrition Research, National Academy of Sciences (2006)
"Thus moderate, rather than extreme, fluctuations in blood glucose are ...
The effect of the ration on blood glucose should be moderate for optimal and ..."
14. Guide To Clinical Preventive Services by U. S. Preventive Services Task Force (1989)
"There is a wide overlap in the range of blood glucose concentrations within such
populations. Even within individuals, there is considerable temporal ..."
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