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Definition of Diabetes

1. Noun. A polygenic disease characterized by abnormally high glucose levels in the blood; any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst.

Definition of Diabetes

1. n. A disease which is attended with a persistent, excessive discharge of urine. Most frequently the urine is not only increased in quantity, but contains saccharine matter, in which case the disease is generally fatal.

Definition of Diabetes

1. Noun. A group of metabolic diseases whereby a person (or other animal) has high blood sugar due to an inability to produce, or inability to metabolize, sufficient quantities of the hormone insulin. ¹

2. Noun. Diabetes insipidus, a condition characterized by excessive thirst and excretion of large amounts of severely diluted urine. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Diabetes

1. a metabolic disorder [n DIABETES]

Medical Definition of Diabetes

1. (Gr. Diabetes a syphon, from dia through + bainein to go) a general term referring to disorders characterised by excessive urine excretion (polyuria), as in diabetes mellitus and diabetes insipidus. When used alone, the term refers to diabetes mellitus. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Diabetes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"A report from the National Commission on diabetes states: "The average American born today has a better than one-in-five chance of developing diabetes ..."

2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"diabetes mellitus 1. Introduction (a) Conception of the Malady diabetes ... Mering, Minkowski) most closely resembles spontaneous human diabetes in its ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"From the frequency of this change and its isolated occurrence in certain cases of diabetes the idea arose that the islands constitute an organ whose duty it ..."

4. Diet in Health and Disease by Julius Friedenwald, John Ruhräh (1907)
"We do not know at all what influence, if any, the suprarenal bodies have in human diabetes. Blum and others presume that the suprarenal bodies are affected ..."

5. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1921)
"TYPES OF diabetes MELLITUS RUSSELL M. WILDER MY purpose this afternoon is to speak about the existence of separable types of diabetes mellitus, ..."

6. Guide To Clinical Preventive Services by U. S. Preventive Services Task Force (1989)
"References 1. American diabetes Association. diabetes facts and Figures. ... Harris ML Prevalence of non-insulin-dependent diabetes and impaired glucose ..."

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