diabetes Definition
dia·betes (dī′ə bēt′ēz′, -is)
noun
any of various diseases characterized by an excessive discharge of urine; esp., diabetes mellitus
Etymology: ME diabete < L diabetes, a siphon (in LL, diabetes) < Gr diabētēs < diabainein, to pass through < dia (see dia-)
diabetes Usage Examples
Converse of object
- diagnose: A diabetic register can only contain those with diagnosed diabetes.
- treat: The doctor or diabetes educator can advise you how to treat diabetes during illness.
Adjective modifier
- gestational: However, women who develop gestational diabetes are more likely to develop type II diabetes later in life.
- type-2: During the ten years of follow-up, 1,603 women developed type-2 diabetes.
- undiagnosed: Around the same number of people have undiagnosed diabetes.
- type-1: He says that the treatment of HIV/AIDS with nutrition is similar to " curing " type-1 diabetes with insulin.
- juvenile: The cause of juvenile onset diabetes, which can kill so quickly, remained a mystery until this century.
- dependent: Type II or non-insulin dependent diabetes In type II diabetes the body does not make enough insulin or cannot use insulin properly.
Modifies a noun
- mellitus: The patient had had diabetes mellitus for 8 years.
- insipidus: Diabetes insipidus centralis Average dosage for adults: 200 mg 2-3 times daily.
- self-management: Change regulations we dependency diabetes self-management more economically disadvantaged in august.
- clinic: You should be having annual blood tests at your diabetes clinic.
- sufferer: Any further consideration of a central register of diabetes sufferers will have to await these developments.
- rulebook: Rewriting the diabetes rulebook Insulin pump evaluation Wearing a pump Wearing a continuous glucose sensor To pump or not to pump?
Noun used with modifier
- insulin-dependent: Type I or insulin-dependent diabetes In type I diabetes the body produces little or no insulin.
- onset: Approximately half the children of somebody with maturity onset diabetes of the young will develop diabetes themselves.
- maturity: Approximately half the children of somebody with maturity onset diabetes of the young will develop diabetes themselves.
- dependency: Change regulations we dependency diabetes self-management more economically disadvantaged in august.
- I: The diagnosis of Type I diabetes is often obvious.
- childhood: Information: Childhood diabetes has doubled in the 12 years to 1994, pediatricians at a Cincinnati, Ohio hospital have reported.

