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insulin reaction
noun
the condition in a diabetic resulting from an overdose of insulin, causing a sharp drop in the blood sugar level with tremor, profuse sweating, and convulsions See also hyperinsulinism
Example Sentences
Connor involved a 1984 arrest in North Carolina in which officers manhandled diabetic Dethorne Graham, brushing off his pleas for treatment when he said he was having a potentially deadly insulin reaction.
Connor, in which a physical altercation took place between a man having an insulin reaction and police officers who assumed the man was drunk and attempted to arrest him.
Common signs of hypoglycemia, also called an insulin reaction, include feeling hungry, dizzy, shaky or confused.
She died from an insulin reaction in 2002, three months after her body rejected her donor organs.
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