blood glucose level area under curve (AUC) 2010-11-08T03:31:06Z A calculated value in which a series of measurements of the amount of glucose, the monosaccharide sugar, C6H12O6, occurring widely in plant and animal tissues which is one of the three dietary monosaccharides that are absorbed directly into the bloodstream during digestion, is the end product of carbohydrate metabolism, and is the chief source of energy for living organisms, in a specified volume of blood is plotted against time for a single individual and the extent of the two dimensional region bounded by the curve and the axes of the graph is determined. CMO:0000350 VT:0000188 blood glucose AUC clinical_measurement_ontology glucose AUC mshimoyama calculated blood glucose level