diabetes mellitus

diabetes mellitus

English

Etymology

International scientific vocabulary, from New Latin, from 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

• IPA^(key): /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtiːz/, /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtɪs/ + IPA^(key): /ˌməˈlaɪtəs/, /ˈmɛlɨtəs/ (the first-listed forms of each are the ones more commonly used)

Noun

diabetes mellitus (uncountable)

1. A medical disorder commonly called diabetes, characterized by varying or persistent hyperglycemia (high blood sugar levels), especially after eating.
   • 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.

Related terms

• diabetes insipidus
• diabetic
• diabetic ketoacidosis

Translations

medical disorder

Afrikaans: suikersiekte Amharic: ስኳር በሽታ (səkʷar bäšta) Arabic: مرض السكر‎ Armenian: շաքարային դիաբետ (hy) (šakʿarayin diabet) Assamese: মধুমেহ (modhumeh), বহুমূত্ৰ ৰোগ (bohumutro rüg) Asturian: diabetes mellitus Azerbaijani: şəkərli diabet Bashkir: шәкәр диабеты (şäkär diabetı) Belarusian: цукровы дыябет m (cukróvy dyjabjet) Bengali: বহুমূত্র রোগ (bôhumūtrô rog) Bulgarian: захарен диабет m (zaharen diabet) Burmese: ဆီးချိုရောဂါ (hci:hkyuirau:ga) Catalan: diabetis mellitus f Chinese: Mandarin: 糖尿病 (zh) (tángniàobìng) Chuvash: сахӑрлӑ диабет (sah̬ărlă diabet) Czech: cukrovka (cs) f Danish: sukkersyge (da) Dhivehi: ހަކުރު ބަލި‎ (hakuru bali) Dutch: suikerziekte (nl) f' Estonian: suhkurtõbi Faroese: sukursjúka Finnish: diabetes (fi), sokeritauti (fi), diabetes mellitus French: diabète (fr) m, diabète sucré Georgian: შაქრიანი დიაბეტი (šakriani diabeṭi) German: Diabetes (de) m, Zuckerkrankheit f, Diabetes mellitus (de) m Greek: σακχαρώδης διαβήτης m (sakcharódis diavítis) Guaraní: tuguyasuka Gujarati: મધુપ્રમેહ (madhuprameh) Hindi: मधुमेह (hi) (madhumeh) Hungarian: cukorbetegség (hu) Icelandic: sykursýki Indonesian: diabetes melitus (id) (formally), penyakit gula (colloquial), kencing manis (id) (colloquial) Italian: diabete mellito m Japanese: 糖尿病 (tōnyōbyō) Javanese: ꦏꦼꦚ꧀ꦕꦶꦁꦩꦤꦶꦱ꧀ (kencing manis) Kalmyk: шикрин гем (shikrin gem) Kannada: ಮಧುಮೇಹ (kn) (madhumēha) Kazakh: қант диабеті (qant diabetı) Khmer: ជំងឺទឹកនោមផ្អែម (cumngɨɨtɨknoomphʼaem) Latin: diabetes mellitus Latvian: cukurslimība f, cukura diabēts Lezgi: шекердин азар (šekerdin azar) Lithuanian: cukrinis diabetas Malayalam: പ്രമേഹം (ml) (pramēhaṃ) Marathi: मधुमेह (madhumeh) Mongolian: чихрийн шижин (čixriin šižin) Nepali: मधुमेह (madhumeha) Newar: मधुमेह (madhumeha), चिनी ल्वे (cinī lwe) Oriya: ମଧୁମେହ (môdhumehô) Ossetian: сӕкӕрниз (sækærniz) Portuguese: diabetes melito (pt) m or f Punjabi: ਸ਼ੱਕਰ ਰੋਗ (śakkar rog), ਮਧੂਮੇਹ (madhūmeh) Quechua: misk'i unquy Romanian: diabet zaharat n Russian: са́харный диабе́т (ru) m (sáxarnyj diabét) Sanskrit: मधुमेह (sa) (madhumeha) Scottish Gaelic: tinneas an t-siùcair m Sinhalese: දියවැඩියාව (diyawæḍiyāwa) Somali: sokorow Spanish: diabetes mellitus (es) f Swahili: kisukari (sw), bolisukari Swedish: diabetes mellitus (sv) c Tajik: бемории қанд (bemoriyi qand) Telugu: మధుమేహము (madhumēhamu) Ukrainian: цукровий діабет m (cukrovyj diabet) Volapük: diabet

See also

• dehydration
• insulin

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Spanish

Noun

diabetes mellitus f (uncountable)

1. diabetes mellitus

Further reading

• “diabetes mellitus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014