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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

低血糖

Pronunciation / Transliteration: teikettō

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Hypoglycemia/ˌhaɪ.poʊ.ɡlaɪˈsiː.mi.ə/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"低血糖になるとめまいや冷や汗が起こります。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A medical condition in which the level of sugar (glucose) in the blood drops below normal limits, typically causing symptoms such as dizziness, confusion, and shaking.

    "Patients with diabetes must monitor their blood sugar carefully to prevent episodes of hypoglycemia."
  2. 2

    An abnormally diminished concentration of blood glucose occurring idiopathically or as a result of excessive insulin or other physical factors.

    "Reactive hypoglycemia can sometimes occur a few hours after eating a meal high in carbohydrates."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Modern Latin and New Latin elements, combining the Greek roots 'hypo-' (under, beneath), 'glykys' (sweet), and 'haima' (blood), with the medical suffix '-ia' (condition). Coined in the late 19th to early 20th century as endocrinology advanced, specifically to describe abnormally low levels of glucose in the bloodstream.

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