diabetes mellitus
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtiːz/, /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtɪs/ + IPA(key): /ˌməˈlaɪtəs/, /ˈmɛlɨtəs/ (the first-listed forms of each are the ones more commonly used)
Audio (US) (file)
Noun[edit]
diabetes mellitus (uncountable)
- A medical disorder commonly called diabetes, characterized by varying or persistent hyperglycemia (high blood sugar levels), especially after eating.
- Coordinate term: diabetes insipidus
- 2018, Isidor Segal, Digestive Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa: Changes and Challenges, page 98:
- Patients initially may seek medical attention for diabetes mellitus, which becomes clinically manifest a few years after the onset of pancreatalgia.
Translations[edit]
medical disorder
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Spanish[edit]
Noun[edit]
diabetes mellitus f (uncountable)
Further reading[edit]
- “diabetes mellitus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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