hyperglycemia
- noun
- /ˌhaɪpərɡlaɪˈsiːmiə/
- Specialized
- Participants completed 5 activity stations related to student care: (1) counting school lunch carbohydrates, (2) administering insulin, (3) assessing and treating hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia, (4) using a blood glucose meter, and (5) using written diabetes care plans.
- hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia
- hyperglycemia and hyperinsulinemia
We just need to try to control your high blood sugar or hyperglycemia with pills and injections.
- We just need to try to control your high blood sugar or hyperglycemia with pills and injections.
Examples
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Perhaps you would consider reading a list of symptoms of hyperglycemia and noting in your follow-up which, if any, you experience?
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We just need to try to control your high blood sugar or hyperglycemia with pills and injections.
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All hyperglycemia matters, but there is a huge difference between the well patient and the ill patient.
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Much hyperglycemia is mild to moderate but chronic.
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However, the mechanisms by which hyperglycemia leads to vascular dysfunction still require further investigation.
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Consider the example of a patient with diabetes who is readmitted to hospital with symptomatic hyperglycemia for the third time in a year.
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HbA1c titers are significantly higher in patients with prolonged periods of hyperglycemia.
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Medical and nursing interventions in the hospital will provide short-term resolution of the hyperglycemia; the patient will be discharged home and will likely be readmitted in a few months with the same issue.
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Chronic exposure to hyperglycemia by the retina is one of the most threatening issues among diabetes patients, which leads to PDR and ultimately blindness.
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If left untreated, hyperglycemia can lead to serious health complications.
Antonyms
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A low level of sugar in the blood that can make you feel shaky and confused
How High
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Surface Forms
Morphology
hyperglycemia = glycemia (semi-transparent) = hyper + glyc + emia
Adding the productive prefix hyper- clearly conveys excess, but the base glycemia is a technical medical term that many learners will not know.
Etymology
The word hyperglycemia breaks into hyper- meaning 'over' or 'too much', as in hyperactive, and glyc- meaning 'sweet' or 'sugar', seen in glucose. So hyperglycemia means 'too much sugar in the blood', which is why it names the condition of high blood glucose.