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Diabetes mellitus

//ˌdaɪəˈbiːtiːz// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A medical disorder commonly called diabetes, characterized by varying or persistent hyperglycemia (high blood sugar levels), especially after eating. It is classified in two types, which are different etiologically but similar in clinical effects: type 1 and type 2. uncountable

    "Patients initially may seek medical attention for diabetes mellitus, which becomes clinically manifest a few years after the onset of pancreatalgia."

  2. 2
    diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria wordnet

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin diabetes mellitus (“diabetes of the sweet type”) (from the fact that in centuries past, physicians sometimes tasted a patient's urine to help diagnose the illness).

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