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diabetic

diabetic

29 3.9
A person who has a disease that makes blood sugar too high
  • noun
  • /ˌdaɪəˈbɛtɪk/
translation icon : diabético
  • Second, although my husband, Jim, is a diabetic, I am not.
  • type 2 diabetic
  • diabetic patients

OK, Yet a huge share of diabetics do not take their Metformin.

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Examples

  • I am a 27-year-old Type I diabetic who's been diabetic for 26 years.

    Blog text (30)
  • They will support you in your new mission to actually help diabetics be healthier.

  • Ed was a diabetic for 30 years.

  • My grandfather was a diabetic.

  • -I'm a veteran and a diabetic!

  • Thus, the patient was placed on a strict diabetic diet, and the metformin was continued.

    Academic text (2009)
  • We know, for instance, with diabetics that you can prevent diabetes if people work on controlling their weight.

  • He's a diabetic, so we tried various levels of insulin, with and without glucose.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • Now this is how diabetics administer insulin to themselves.

  • Terry Maize is a 36-year-old single mother of two, a diabetic who lives in Southern California.

Compounds

diabetic coma
  • Specialized
2 5.0

A state of unconsciousness when blood sugar is very high or very low in a person with diabetes

diabetic retinopathy
  • Specialized
1 5.3

Damage to blood vessels at the back of the eye caused by long-term high blood sugar in people with diabetes

diabetic acidosis
  • Specialized
6.1

A serious condition when diabetes causes too much acid and chemicals called ketones in the body

A diet that helps control blood sugar for people with diabetes

How Diabetic

diabetic
29 3.9
prediabetic
  • Specialized
5.1
nondiabetic
  • Specialized
4.7

Surface Forms

diabetic singular
diabetics plural

Morphology

diabetic = diabetic (transparent) = diabetes + ic

The noun is a regular conversion from the adjective 'diabetic', and that adjective is transparently related to 'diabetes' with the common suffix '-ic'.

Etymology

Diabetic as a noun comes from the word diabetes, from the Greek dia- 'through', named because sugar seemed to 'pass through' into the urine; so a diabetic is 'a person who has diabetes'.