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glucohæmia

glucohæmia is the obsolete form of glycemia.

Meaning of glycemia

Noun

glycemia (countable and uncountable, plural glycemias)

  1. (US) Presence of glucose in the blood (which is always true), and (usually, more specifically) average concentration thereof over time, and its regulation; in this sense, glycemia is hypernymic to euglycemia, hyperglycemia, and hypoglycemia, and a mention of glycemia is a reference to blood sugar regulation and degree or quality thereof.
    • Currently used methods to determine glycemia have certain disadvantages, including cost, heavy labor involvement, and storage problems. Determination of serum fructosamine levels, on the other hand, offers several potential advantages over these current measures. Our goal was to evaluate the...1988, H Negoro, JE Morley, MJ Rosenthal, “Utility of serum fructosamine as a measure of glycemia in young and old diabetic and non-diabetic subjects”, in Am J Med, volume 85, number 3, pages 360–364
  2. (US) (occasionally, ambiguously) Hyperglycemia.

Questions about glucohæmia

What is glucohæmia the obsolete form of?
Glucohæmia is the obsolete form of glycemia.

Words near glucohæmia in the dictionary

  1. glucohexaoses
  2. glucohexokinase
  3. glucohirsutin
  4. glucohydrolase
  5. glucohydrolases
  6. glucohæmia
  7. glucoiberin
  8. glucoincretin
  9. glucoincretins
  10. glucokamaloside
  11. glucokinase

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