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🩸 A blood sugar test 💧 A drop (dose)
gtt

gtt

8.4
A medical test that checks how the body handles sugar after drinking a sweet drink
  • noun
  • Specialized
translation icon : prueba de tolerancia a la glucosa
  • The doctor recommended a GTT to check how my body responds to sugar after drinking a sweetened beverage.

Examples

  • During the GTT, blood samples are taken at intervals to measure the levels of glucose in the bloodstream.

  • For accurate results, patients must fast before taking a GTT to assess their glucose tolerance.

  • If you have a GTT, some trophoblastic cells grow abnormally and develop into a tumor.

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  • Womb cancer develops from the cells that make up the womb, whereas a GTT grows from the tissue that forms in your womb when you are pregnant.

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  • GTT can be non-cancerous (benign) or cancerous (malignant).

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  • Although gestational trophoblastic tumors (GTTs) usually start in the womb, they are very different from a cancer of the womb.

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Synonyms

glucose tolerance test
vsgtt
  • Specialized
1 3.8

A test that checks how your body uses sugar after you drink a sweet drink

is the standard abbreviation for the same medical test

Surface Forms

gtt singular
gtts plural

Etymology

Gtt is a medical abbreviation for glucose tolerance test, a simple check that measures how your body handles 'sugar' after a sweet drink. That is why a gtt is used to find problems like diabetes.