Definition of Diabites
Diabetes, a disease characterised by an excessive discharge of
urine, and accompanied with great thirst; there are two forms of this
disease.
- Wikipedia
Di`a*be"tes (?), n. [NL., from Gr. &?;,
fr. &?; to pass or cross over. See Diabase.] (Med.)
A disease which is attended with a persistent, excessive
discharge of urine. Most frequently the urine is not only increased
in quantity, but contains saccharine matter, in which case the
disease is generally fatal.
||Diabetes mellitus [NL., sweet diabetes],
that form of diabetes in which the urine contains saccharine
matter. -- ||Diabetes insipidus [NL., lit.,
diabetes], the form of diabetes in which the urine contains no
abnormal constituent.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A disease which is attended with a persistent, excessive discharge of urine. Most frequently the urine is not only increased in quantity, but contains saccharine matter, in which case the disease is generally fatal.
- Diabetes mellitus.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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