Test your vocabulary with our 10-question quiz!
TAKE THE QUIZ“glucose tolerance”
The following 2 entries include the term glucose tolerance.
glucose tolerance test
noun: a test of the body's ability to metabolize glucose that involves the administration of a measured dose of glucose to the fasting stomach and the determination of glucose levels in the blood and urine at measured intervals thereafter and that is used especially to detect diabetes mellitus
impaired glucose tolerance
noun: a condition in which an individual has higher than normal levels of glucose in the blood upon fasting or following a carbohydrate-rich meal or ingestion of a glucose test solution but not high enough to be diagnostic of diabetes mellitus
Love words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
