glycosuria
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of glycosuria
1855–60; glycose (a monosaccharide) + -uria
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Though an exceptionally high sugar intake might cause sugar to appear briefly in the urine, the appearance of glycosuria usually points to type I or II diabetes mellitus.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
We have a number of cases of pentosuria on record in which patients were excreting penatomic sugar, but had not glycosuria, though their urine responded to the ordinary tests for this.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
Arterial sclerosis, glycosuria, follicular tonsillitis and, above all, sleeping sickness I can bear with fortitude—that is, I feel sure I could—but toothache, no!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-14 by Sir Owen Seaman
The complete removal of the pancreas, however, determines glycosuria, the organ having in health an inhibitive action on sugar production by the liver.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
No one surely would deny the diagnostic value of glycosuria for diabetes, because in conditions of inanition, for instance, the sugar of a diabetic may completely vanish, although the disease continues.
From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by W. Myers
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