Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, having, or resulting from diabetes.
- adjective Intended for use by a person with diabetes.
- noun A person who has diabetes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to diabetes.
- Affected with diabetes: as, a diabetic patient.
- noun A person suffering from diabetes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to diabetes.
- adjective (Chem.) Same as
Dextrose .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
diabetes , especiallydiabetes mellitus . - adjective Having diabetes, especially diabetes mellitus.
- adjective Suitable for one having diabetes mellitus.
- noun A person who suffers from diabetes mellitus.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective suffering from diabetes
- noun someone who has diabetes
- adjective of or relating to or causing diabetes
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Examples
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What if the newly-diagnosed diabetic is 64 years old?
Taxes and Health Insurance, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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My point about the diabetic is to counter the claim that it doesn't make sense to use insurance to pay for routine things.
Taxes and Health Insurance, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The thing the article doesn't mention in much detail, presumably because the writer isn't diabetic, is how awful hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) feels.
SeeLight: 2007
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The thing the article doesn't mention in much detail, presumably because the writer isn't diabetic, is how awful hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) feels.
Diabulimia 2007
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According to your theory, a diabetic is only a diabetic when they eat sugar.
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The study supports the view that diet can improve glucose and lipid levels and thus reduce the risk of long-term diabetic complications.
The Fiber35 Diet Brenda Watson with Leonard Smith 2007
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The study supports the view that diet can improve glucose and lipid levels and thus reduce the risk of long-term diabetic complications.
The Fiber35 Diet Brenda Watson with Leonard Smith 2007
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Current recommendations to manage dyslipidaemia in diabetic patients are based on observational evidence and expert judgment.
Medpundit 2003
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Current recommendations to manage dyslipidaemia in diabetic patients are based on observational evidence and expert judgment.
Archive 2003-03-01 2003
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Every 45 seconds a new diabetic is diagnosed in North America.
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