diabetes (redirected from preclinical diabetes)

di·a·be·tes  (d-bts, -tz)

n.

Any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive discharge of urine and persistent thirst, especially one of the two types of diabetes mellitus.

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[Middle English diabete, from Medieval Latin diabts, from Latin, from Greek, siphon, diabetes, from diabainein, to cross over, straddle : dia-, dia- + bainein, to go; see g^w- in Indo-European roots.]

Word History: Diabetes is named for one of its distressing symptoms. The disease was known to the Greeks as diabts, a word derived from the verb diabainein, made up of the prefix dia-, "across, apart," and the word bainein, "to walk, stand." The verb diabeinein meant "to stride, walk, or stand with legs asunder"; hence, its derivative diabts meant "one that straddles," or specifically "a compass, siphon." The sense "siphon" gave rise to the use of diabts as the name for a disease involving the discharge of excessive amounts of urine. Diabetes is first recorded in English, in the form diabete, in a medical text written around 1425.

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diabetes [die-a-beet-eez]

Noun

a medical condition in which the body is unable to control the level of sugar in the blood [Greek: a passing through]

Thesaurus

Noun

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diabetes - a polygenic disease characterized by abnormally high glucose levels in the blood; any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst polydipsia - excessive thirst (as in cases of diabetes or kidney dysfunction) polygenic disease, polygenic disorder - an inherited disease controlled by several genes at once polyuria - renal disorder characterized by the production of large volumes of pale dilute urine; often associated with diabetes diabetes mellitus, DM - diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria; "when doctors say `diabetes' they usually mean `diabetes mellitus'" diabetes insipidus - a rare form of diabetes resulting from a deficiency of vasopressin (the pituitary hormone that regulates the kidneys); characterized by the chronic excretion of large amounts of pale dilute urine which results in dehydration and extreme thirst

Translations

diabetes [daɪəˈbiːtiːz] n → diabetes f

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diabetes [daɪəˈbiːtiːz] n → diabète m

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diabetes [daɪəˈbiːtiːz] n → Zuckerkrankheit f

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diabetes [daɪəˈbiːtiːz] n → diabete m