Definition of Prediabetic

1. Adjective. Preceding the onset of diabetes; thus, indicating the probable future onset of diabetes ¹

2. Noun. One who has prediabetes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Prediabetic

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prediabetic

predeterminate
predetermination
predeterminations
predetermine
predetermined
predeterminedness
predeterminer
predeterminers
predetermines
predetermining
predeterminism
predevaluation
predevelopment
prediabetes
prediabeteses
prediabetic (current term)
prediabetics
prediagnosed
prediagnoses
prediagnosis
prediagnostic
predial
predialed
predialing
predialled
predialling
predials
predialysis
prediastolic
predicability

Literary usage of Prediabetic

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

1. Skin and Venereal Diseases (1921)
"To continue a prediabetic patient on a diet rich in carbohydrates is likely to lead to the development of diabetes. Studies made of two such cases are ..."

2. Diabetes in America by Ronald Aubert (1996)
"By age 20-24 years, offspring of a diabetic pregnancy had a higher rate of diabetes (45%) than offspring of prediabetic women (8.6%) or nondiabetic women ..."

3. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1901)
"Bremer obtains this reaction in the prediabetic stage, and also in the intervals when the patient's urine is temporarily free from sugar. ..."

4. Repressive Legislation of the Republic of South Africa by Elizabeth S. Landis, United Nations Unit on Apartheid (1903)
"Bremer obtains this reaction in the prediabetic stage, and also in the intervals when the patient's urine is temporarily free from sugar. ..."

5. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1897)
"Even in the prediabetic stage, a disturbed taste of the metabolic equilibrium is revealed by the test. In addition to the well-known experimental ..."

6. The Prophylaxis and Treatment of Internal Diseases: Designed for the Use of by Frederick Forchheimer (1906)
"When obesity has developed, this should be treated in a rational way—ie, reduction of weight should not be accomplished too quickly, for in the prediabetic ..."

7. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1922)
"It does not suggest that most of the persons in the series according to this test were prediabetic. When the patients are considered separately, however, ..."

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