Definition of "glycosuria" [‖Gly•co•su•ri•a]

• Excess sugar in the urine, often associated with diabetes mellitus. (noun)

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• "As a result of his work on the action of phlorhizin, a glucoside provoking glycosuria, and another one on nuclein metabolism in man, he was appointed"
• "Macleod had, before this discovery, been interested in carbohydrate metabolism and especially in diabetes since 1905 and he had published some 37 papers on carbohydrate metabolism and 12 papers on experimentally produced glycosuria."
• "For the first time, therefore, an appearance of sugar in the urine - a glycosuria, though of a transitory nature - was experimentally produced; and consequently this discovery by Claude Bernard may be characterized as the starting-point of a series of experimental researches into the causes and nature of diabetes."