glucose
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- noun
- /ˈɡluːkoʊs/
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glucosa
- An understanding of the need for lower glucose levels may help in their decision to start insulin.
- blood glucose
- glucose levels
- fasting glucose
Your brain cells are using glucose to think and speak.
- Your brain cells are using glucose to think and speak.
- But you're also needing, you know, glucose for neurons as well.
- They're little molecules of glucose sitting in our muscle cell.
- It slows down the absorption of glucose into the bloodstream.
- Sucrose which is sugar is made-up of glucose and fructose.
- Then you may develop some low glucose problems by doing that too quickly.
- That's related to the use of blood sugar, the use of glucose by neurons.
- And then when you've got this glucose attached to proteins, they malfunction.
- And in many people it's actually causing a big glucose excursion and crash.
- So you're getting a big glucose spike, and that glucose spike has to come down.
- One, it helps lower glucose, which is great.
- Well, the cells in your brain also use glucose for energy.
- It turns out that fluid's glucose mirrors the blood's glucose pretty closely.
- And then you can make a picture of glucose use in the brain.
Examples
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Obesity is also associated with type 2 diabetes through glucose intolerance and insulin resistance.
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A graded association exists between increased glucose levels and weaker muscle strength.
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Your brain cells are using glucose to think and speak.
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Then you may develop some low glucose problems by doing that too quickly.
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When my glucose levels get low, I get a little...
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I've been carefully monitoring my glucose levels.
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So the two main types of food that contain glucose are starchy and sweet foods.
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Therefore, the brain receives energy substrates, primarily oxygen and glucose, on the fly through its blood supply.
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The patient was placed on a diet to address his serum glucose and insulin findings.
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Your brain cells are using glucose to think and speak.
Synonyms
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6.1
A simple sugar found in honey and fruits that people use as a sweetener and in medicine
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2.9
A sugar made from corn starch used to sweeten food and drinks
A simple sugar found in honey and fruit that gives quick energy
Compounds
- Specialized
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A test that checks how your body uses sugar after you drink a sweet drink
How Sweet
Surface Forms
Morphology
glucose = gluc + ose
The parts are specialized combining forms from scientific nomenclature (gluc- + -ose) rather than familiar English words, so a B1 learner cannot reliably infer the meaning.
Etymology
The word glucose comes from the Greek word glykos, which means 'sweet'. So think of glucose as the simple 'sweet' sugar found in blood and plants that gives quick energy.