| 单词 | diabetic sugar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdiabetic sugar diabetic sugar n. †(a) glucose (as the sugar present in excess in the blood and urine of diabetics) (obsolete); (b) any natural or artificial sweetener supposed to be suitable for use by diabetics. ΚΠ 1811 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 101 101 When three grains of diabetic sugar had been added to another ounce of the same serum, the presence of this quantity was manifest by the same process. 1882 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 3 June 13/6 The diabetic-sugar, as one may appropriately call glucose. 1958 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 13 Sept. 677/1 Apart from its value as a diabetic sugar it [sc. sorbitol] is used in confectionery as a humectant and plastifier. 1994 B. Hall Impossible Country vi. 39 Nino, Nataša and Silvija all preferred, a little shame-facedly, to drop in pinhead tablets they called ‘diabetic sugar’, which they assured me was healthier. < as lemmas |
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