diabetes mellitus

Learned borrowing from New Latin 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).

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

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diabetes mellitus (uncountable)

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

   Coordinate term: diabetes insipidus

   • 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.

• dehydration
• insulin

diabetes mellitus f (uncountable)

1. diabetes mellitus

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