hyperglycemia

Questions about hyperglycemia

What does hyperglycemia mean?

hyperglycemia means "abnormally high blood sugar usually associated with diabetes".

How many syllables are in hyperglycemia?

hyperglycemia has 6 syllables and divides as hy-per-gly-ce-mi-a under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for hyperglycemia?

Close synonyms include hyperglycaemia. 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.

What is the opposite of hyperglycemia?

The recorded antonyms are hypoglycemia.

Is hyperglycemia a common word?

hyperglycemia 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.