diabetes
Diabetes mellitus; any of 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.
Other meanings
Diabetes insipidus; any condition characterized by excessive or incontinent urine, now specifically as caused by impaired production of, or response to, the antidiuretic hormone vasopressin.
Any food or beverage with a high amount of sugar.
Related words
- antidiabetes
- diabetology
- diabulimia
- nondiabetes
- telediabetes
- diabesity
- diabetes mellitus
- diabetes insipidus
- prediabetes
- bronze diabetes
- I have diabetes
- sugar diabetes
Word history
From Ancient Greek "διαβαίνω" (to pass through).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “diabetes” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.