Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
So·mo·gyi effect Pronunciation:
'sO-mO-jE- Function:
noun : hyperglycemia following an episode of hypoglycemia;
especially : hyperglycemia that occurs after breakfast following nocturnal hypoglycemia and that may occur in type 1 diabetes especially when too much insulin has been taken the day before called also
Somogyi phenomenon; —compare
DAWN PHENOMENON Somogyi,
Michael (1883–1971),American biochemist. Somogyi was head chemist in Budapest's municipal laboratories before immigrating to the U.S. and becoming an instructor of biochemistry at Washington University's medical schooland a biochemist at the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis. In 1926 he introduced a method for determining reducing sugars in human blood. In 1940 he developed a method for the determination of serum amylasein healthy and diabetic individuals. He is also credited with devising a test for acute pancreatitis.
