Usually means: Chronic disorder affecting blood sugar.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. diabetes: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. diabetes: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. diabetes: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. diabetes: Collins English Dictionary
  5. diabetes: Vocabulary.com
  6. Diabetes, diabetes: Wordnik
  7. diabetes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. diabetes: Wiktionary
  9. diabetes: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. diabetes: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. diabetes: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. diabetes: Dictionary.com
  13. diabetes: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. diabetes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Diabetes (disambiguation), Diabetes (journal), Diabetes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Diabetes: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. diabetes: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. diabetes: Rhymezone
  19. Diabetes: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. diabetes: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. diabetes: Free Dictionary
  22. diabetes: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. diabetes: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. diabetes: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. diabetes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Diabetes: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  6. Diabetes Dictionary (No longer online)
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  9. Diabetes: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
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  13. diabetes: Medical dictionary
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  15. Diabetes: Drug Medical Dictionary
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Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Diabetes: Biology dictionary
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  4. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. diabetes: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  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.
▸ noun:  (slang, humorous) Any food or beverage with a high amount of sugar.
▸ noun:  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.

Similar:
diabetic, hypertension, prediabetes, hyperglycemia, obesity, insulin, Mellitus, hypoglycemia, prediabetic, insipidus, more...

Opposite:
non-diabetic, healthy, insulin-sensitive, glucose-tolerant, normoglycemic

Types:
type 1, type 2, type 3, more...

Phrases:
diabetes mellitus, diabetes insipidus, Gestational diabetes, juvenile diabetes, overt diabetes, more...

Adjectives:
dependent, gestational, onset, juvenile, severe, maternal, uncontrolled, experimental, mild, induced, controlled

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Similar:
diabetic, hypertension, prediabetes, hyperglycemia, obesity, insulin, Mellitus, hypoglycemia, prediabetic, insipidus, more...

Opposite:
non-diabetic, healthy, insulin-sensitive, glucose-tolerant, normoglycemic

Types:
type 1, type 2, type 3, more...

Phrases:
diabetes mellitus, diabetes insipidus, Gestational diabetes, juvenile diabetes, overt diabetes, autoimmune diabetes, diabetes complications, alloxan diabetes, brittle diabetes, latent diabetes, sugar diabetes, more...

Adjectives:
dependent, gestational, onset, juvenile, severe, maternal, uncontrolled, experimental, mild, induced, controlled

Colors:
    blue,     gray,     red,     purple,     green,     orange,     yellow,     pink,     teal,     white



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