Antisugar
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A substance that reacts readily to consume sugars.
"As one special example the author states that alcohol is an antisugar having calorigenic value but at the same time an antidynamic action."
- 1 Opposed to the consumption or production of sugar or sugar-containing foods.
"The chief topics of discussion were the importance of dental work in public schools, the antisugar campaign, the gospel of the clean mouth and the relation of systemic diseases to infected teeth."
- 2 Countering the effects of sugar in mammalian metabolism.
"In another approach, antiglobulin neutralization was carried out by incubating the antiglobulin reagents directly with sugar-coated erythrocytes that had been sensitized with antisugar antibodies."
Example
More examples"The chief topics of discussion were the importance of dental work in public schools, the antisugar campaign, the gospel of the clean mouth and the relation of systemic diseases to infected teeth."
Etymology
From anti- + sugar.
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