diabetes — meaning in English
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English meaning
- diabetes noun A metabolic disease in which the body can't produce or properly use insulin, resulting in high blood sugar.
Senses
diabetes is used for these senses in English:
- diabetes (disease) 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. [from 19th c.]