User guide

High Snooze - For the High
Glucose, High Predictive, and
Rising Rate of change alerts,
allows you to set the delay
between the first alert and
any subsequent alerts. This
allows you to avoid getting an
alert every five minutes until
the condition is corrected.
I
Incineration - The act of burning
something completely.
Increment - A small increase or
decrease in a measurement.
Indication - A condition that
makes a specific medical
treatment or procedure
advisable or necessary.
Initialize - To set a starting
value and/or prepare your
monitor, transmitter or sensor
for use.
Interruption - When something
stops for a while (there was
an interruption in
communication between your
transmitter and your
monitor).
Interstitial fluid - The fluid
between the cells in the
human body. This fluid makes
up approximately 16 percent
of the weight of the body.
Intravenous - Within or put into
a vein; the passing of
medicines into a vein through
a tube.
Invalidate - An action or a
condition that makes a
measurement or other
information, bad, inaccurate
or not usable.
K
Ketone - A chemical created by
the human body when there is
not enough insulin in the
blood.
L
Log - A record of measurements,
alarms or other actions by
your monitor.
Low Glucose alert - This alert
occurs when the sensor
glucose measurements reach
or exceed (go below) your low
glucose limit. You have the
option of turning this alert on
or off.
Low Snooze - For the Low
Glucose, Low Predictive, and
Falling Rate of Change alerts,
allows you to set the delay
between the first alert and
any subsequent alerts. This
allows you to avoid getting an
alert every five minutes until
the condition is corrected.
M
Marker - A measurement of a
specific event - such as a
meal or exercise period, or
details about an event - such
as the type of insulin you
selected the last time you
entered information.
Meter - A blood glucose
measuring device. If your
meter is powered by MWT1
radio frequency (RF)
technology, your monitor can
be programmed to
automatically receive your BG
readings from this meter. If
your meter is not an RF
meter, its data can be
entered manually into your
monitor.
Missed Data - The monitor will
alert if it has not received
data from the transmitter for
an amount of time that you
set.
MWT1 technology - MWT1 is the
wireless Radio Frequency (RF)
technology that is used to
transmit information from the
meter to the monitor. You
can program your monitor to
automatically receive your BG
reading from this meter.
O
Occlusive dressing - a bandage
that seals a wound from air or
bacteria.
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