Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Excess sugar in the urine, often associated with diabetes mellitus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) Same as glucosuria.

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  • noun medicine The presence of sugars (especially glucose) in the blood, often as a result of diabetes mellitus

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  • noun the presence of abnormally high levels of sugar in the urine

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[glycose, a monosaccharide (variant of glucose) + –uria.]

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Examples

  • Patients formerly considered bad surgical risks, if given proper dietetic treatment with insulin may be protected from the acidosis, hyperglycaemia, and glycosuria which otherwise usually result from the anaesthetic.

    Frederick G. Banting - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • From a review of the work, Dr. Boyd has found that all the patients had had hyperglycaemia or even glycosuria at times, but if such occurrences were only transitory and infrequent, improvement in tolerance occurred.

    Frederick G. Banting - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • Best, and under my direction, he succeeded in 1922 in showing that such extracts reduced the hyperglycaemia and glycosuria in depancreatized dogs.

    John Macleod - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • An increase in the dose previous to the appearance of glycosuria will prevent its occurrence.

    Frederick G. Banting - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • The addition of cane sugar, in amounts sufficient to cause a mild degree of glycosuria (50 to 100 g daily), had the immediate effect of preventing the loss of body weight, and in most animals, of causing it to become increased, especially when large amounts were given.

    John Macleod - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • The attention of Claude Bernard was directed to this point, but he did not succeed in producing glycosuria by ligation of the duct which leads the secretion of the gland to the bowel or by injecting coagulating substances into it; the removal of the whole gland by operation he regarded as technically impracticable.

    Physiology or Medicine 1923 - Presentation Speech 1965

  • Macleod had, before this discovery, been interested in carbohydrate metabolism and especially in diabetes since 1905 and he had published some 37 papers on carbohydrate metabolism and 12 papers on experimentally produced glycosuria.

    John Macleod - Biography 1965

  • As a result of his work on the action of phlorhizin, a glucoside provoking glycosuria, and another one on nuclein metabolism in man, he was appointed

    Otto Loewi - Biography 1965

  • For the first time, therefore, an appearance of sugar in the urine - a glycosuria, though of a transitory nature - was experimentally produced; and consequently this discovery by Claude Bernard may be characterized as the starting-point of a series of experimental researches into the causes and nature of diabetes.

    Physiology or Medicine 1923 - Presentation Speech 1965

  • This was done by Banting in a severe case under the care of W.R. Campbell, with the result that the hyperglycaemia and glycosuria were diminished.

    John Macleod - Nobel Lecture 1965

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