hypoglycemia

1. 1.

   abnormally low blood sugar usually resulting from excessive insulin or a poor diet

   Synonymshypoglycaemia

   Antonymshyperglycemia

   Broadersymptom

   Part ofinsulin shock

Other forms of hypoglycemia

plural

hypoglycemias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hypoglycemia

What does hypoglycemia mean?

hypoglycemia means "abnormally low blood sugar usually resulting from excessive insulin or a poor diet".

How many syllables are in hypoglycemia?

hypoglycemia has 6 syllables: hy-po-gly-ce-mi-a. The stress falls on "ce". In IPA it is /ˌhaɪpoʊɡlaɪˈsimiə/.

What is another word for hypoglycemia?

Close synonyms include hypoglycaemia. 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 hypoglycemia?

The recorded antonyms are hyperglycemia.

Is hypoglycemia a common word?

hypoglycemia 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.