blood sugar

1. 1.

   glucose in the bloodstream

   Synonymsblood glucose

   Broaderglucose

Questions about blood sugar

What does blood sugar mean?

blood sugar means "glucose in the bloodstream".

What is another word for blood sugar?

Close synonyms include blood glucose. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blood sugar a common word?

blood sugar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.