GLYCOSURIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glycosuria mean? 

• GLYCOSURIA (noun)
  The noun GLYCOSURIA has 1 sense:

1. the presence of abnormally high levels of sugar in the urine

  Familiarity information: GLYCOSURIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLYCOSURIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The presence of abnormally high levels of sugar in the urine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("glycosuria" is a kind of...):

symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "glycosuria"):

fructosuria (the presence of levulose is the urine)

glucosuria (the presence of abnormally high levels of glucose in the urine)

 Context examples 

It is associated with slight increase of the plasma cystine, cystinuria, aminoaciduria, glycosuria, polyuria, hypophosphatemia, rickets, and renal tubular dysfunction. —2004

(Cystinosis, NCI Thesaurus)