glycuresis

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English

Etymology

From glyco- +‎ -uresis.

Noun

glycuresis (uncountable)

  1. (medical) excretion of sugar (glucose) in the urine, as in diabetes; glucosuria.
    • 1925 May, “Sugar threshold in one hundred cases of diabetes”, in JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, volume 84, number 19, pages 1406-7:
      That the threshold point of glycuresis in diabetes shows wide variations is an important fact, clinically, because it reveals the inadequacy of urinary sugar examinations and the necessity for blood sugar findings in the management of this disease.