diabetes

noun
🔊/ˌdaɪəˈbiːtiːz/
🔊/ˌdaɪəˈbiːtiːz/
[uncountable]
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  1. a medical condition in which the body cannot produce enough insulin to control the amount of sugar in the blood糖尿病Topics Illnessb2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryDiabetes is used before these nouns:
    • medication
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    Word Originmid 16th cent.: via Latin from Greek, literally ‘siphon’, from diabainein ‘go through’.