Definitions
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- noun medicine Alternative spelling of
hypoglycemia .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun abnormally low blood sugar usually resulting from excessive insulin or a poor diet
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Examples
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Children with hypoglycaemia, that is almost 20% of children with severe malaria, are three to four times more likely to die from the disease.
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This drop in blood sugar is known as hypoglycaemia and is explainedin more detail later.
WordPress.com News 2009
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Although none of the patients were diabetic, all had suffered unexplained hypoglycaemia or low blood sugar, similar to the Stepping Hill cases in Stockport.
'Angel of Death' Colin Norris could be cleared of insulin murders 2011
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An international review of medical studies conducted after Norris's conviction shows that hypoglycaemia in very elderly, sick non-diabetics is far from rare.
'Angel of Death' Colin Norris could be cleared of insulin murders 2011
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If anything, indeed, my issue is hypoglycaemia, which I've experienced regularly since my teens.
Answers in a drop of blood txtriffidranch 2008
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In Africa, malaria combined with hypoglycaemia causes many of these children to die before they get to a health care facility, where they could access life saving intravenous treatment.
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This trial has identified a new method to correct hypoglycaemia and raise blood glucose.
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“Better control of glucose would mean less hypoglycaemia and hyperglycaemia,” says Roman Hovorka of City University, London, who has been involved in developing the device.
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This can result in neonatal hypoglycaemia and raised levels of blood lactate.
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Thus, one of the depancreatized dogs gave birth to five pups without any change whatsoever in her sugar balance throughout the pregnancy, although, on the day after the pups were born, severe symptoms of hypoglycaemia developed, no doubt because of the removal of glucose from the body to form the lactose of the milk.
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