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n. - Excessive amounts of certain toxic chemicals in the liquid excretion as in diabetes mellitus or starvation.

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  • Later it was shown, in collaboration with Collip, that other symptoms of diabetes, namely the ketonuria and the absence of glycogen from the liver, were favourably...
  • Protein consumption does not increase as much as in the pancreatectomized; the small amount of ketonuria points to a diminished consumption of fat.
  • In the dog the blood sugar rises from normal to 150 to 300 mg per cent; there is glycosuria; ketonemia and ketonuria increase; and there is polyuria and polydipsia.
  • Lactic acidosis should be suspected in any diabetic patient with metabolic acidosis lacking evidence of ketoacidosis (ketonuria and ketonemia).
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