diabetes mellitus

English

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

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

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Noun

diabetes mellitus (uncountable)

1. A medical disorder commonly called diabetes, characterized by varying or persistent hyperglycemia (high blood sugar levels), especially after eating. It is classified in two types, which are different etiologically but similar in clinical effects: type 1 and type 2.

   Hyponym: gestational diabetes

   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.

Related terms

• melliferous
• mellifluous

 

Translations

medical disorder

• Afrikaans: suikersiekte
• Amharic: ስኳር በሽታ (səkʷar bäšta)
• Arabic: مرض السكر
• Armenian: շաքարային դիաբետ (hy) (šakʻarayin diabet)
• Assamese: মধুমেহ (modhumeh), বহুমূত্ৰ ৰোগ (bohumutro rüg)
• Asturian: diabetes mellitus
• Azerbaijani: şəkərli diabet
• Bashkir: шәкәр диабеты (şəkər diabetı)
• Belarusian: цукровы дыябет m (cukróvy dyjabjet)
• Bengali: বহুমূত্র রোগ (bohumutro rōg)
• 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 (fr)
• 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 (ja) (tōnyōbyō)
• Javanese: ꦏꦼꦚ꧀ꦕꦶꦁꦩꦤꦶꦱ꧀ (kencing manis)
• Kalmyk: шикрин гем (şikrin gem)
• Kannada: ಮಧುಮೇಹ (kn) (madhumēha)
• Kazakh: қант диабеті (qant diabetı)
• Khmer: ជំងឺទឹកនោមផ្អែម (cumngɨɨtɨknoomphʼaem)
• Latin: diabetes mellitus
• Latvian: cukurslimība (lv) f, cukura diabēts
• Lezgi: шекердин азар (šekerdin azar)
• Lithuanian: cukrinis diabetas
• Malayalam: പ്രമേഹം (ml) (pramēhaṁ)
• Marathi: मधुमेह (madhumeh)
• Mongolian: чихрийн шижин (čixriin šižin)
• Nepali: मधुमेह (madhumeha)
• Newar: मधुमेह (madhumeha), चिनी ल्वे (cinī lwe)
• Odia: ମଧୁମେହ (madhumeha)
• Ossetian: сӕкӕрниз (sækærniz)
• Polish: cukrzyca (pl) f
• 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 (bemori-yi qand)
• Telugu: మధుమేహము (madhumēhamu)
• Ukrainian: цукровий діабет m (cukrovyj diabet)
• Urdu: ذیابیطس شکری (ziyābītas-e-śakrī), ذیابیطس (ziyābītas), شوگر (śugar)
• Volapük: diabet

See also

• dehydration
• insulin

Spanish

Noun

diabetes mellitus f (uncountable)

1. diabetes mellitus

Further reading

• “diabetes mellitus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28