hypoglycemia

English

Alternative forms

• hypoglycaemia, hypoglycæmia

Etymology

From hypo- +‎ glycemia or hypo- +‎ glyc- +‎ -emia.

Noun

hypoglycemia (countable and uncountable, plural hypoglycemias)

1. (pathology) A too low level of blood glucose.

Synonyms

• hypoglycosemia (rare)

Antonyms

• hyperglycemia
• hyperglycosemia

Coordinate terms

• euglycemia
• glycemia (polysemic; may be hypernym or coordinate term, depending on sense used)
• normoglycemia

Derived terms

• hypoglycemic
• hypo

Translations

low level of blood glucose

• Catalan: hipoglucèmia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 低血糖 (dīxuètáng)

• Czech: hypoglykémie f
• Dutch: hypoglycemie (nl), hypo (nl)
• Finnish: hypoglykemia (fi), matala verensokeri
• French: hypoglycémie (fr)
• Galician: hipoglicemia f
• German: Hypoglykämie (de) f, Unterzuckerung (de) f
• Greek: υπογλυκαιμία (el) f (ypoglykaimía)
• Hungarian: hipoglikémia (hu)
• Icelandic: blóðsykurskortur m, blóðsykurslækkun f, blóðsykursekla f
• Indonesian: hipoglikemia (id)
• Irish: hipiglicéime f
• Japanese: 低血糖 (ていけっとう, teikettō)
• Maori: mate hukatoto iti
• Polish: hipoglikemia (pl) f
• Portuguese: hipoglicemia (pt) f
• Spanish: hipoglucemia f, hipoglicemia f

Further reading

• hypoglycemia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia