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🚫 Not related to diabetes 🙂 A person without diabetes
nondiabetic

nondiabetic

3.9
Not having diabetes
  • adjective
  • /ˌnɒnˈdaɪəˌbɛtɪk/
  • Specialized
translation icon : no diabético
  • The beneficial effects of weight loss are more striking in younger patients and in nondiabetic controls with a higher degree of obesity presurgery, likely due to greater weight loss.
  • nondiabetic patients
  • nondiabetic populations

Examples

  • People with diabetes experience depression at a significantly higher rate than do their nondiabetic counterparts.

    Academic text (2009)

  • The mean for HbA1 in nondiabetic children is 5.9, with a standard deviation of 0.64.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Necrotizing OE rarely occurs in healthy, nondiabetic, immunocompetent patients.

    Academic text (2009)

  • At our institution, we have observed a less aggressive but still severe form of necrotizing OE in nondiabetic, immunocompetent younger patients.

    Academic text (2009)

  • In our study, diabetic patients did not have significantly lower levels of nasal pH than nondiabetic patients, but they did have significantly lower levels of oral pH.

    Academic text (1999)

  • Yue reported that the nasal cavities of diabetic patients were more alkalinic than those of nondiabetic patients, but their oral pH was more acidic.

    Academic text (1999)

  • Knowledge about the properties and significance of the HbA1c molecule is framed by other information about at-risk individuals, early targeted treatments, and comparable diabetic and nondiabetic populations.

    Academic text (2012)

  • The researchers concluded, "Hypertensive patients with type 2 diabetes have a higher prevalence of LOD and CVD compared to nondiabetic hypertensive patients with 3 or more CVRF."

    Blog text (27)

  • A nondiabetic individual can usually enjoy a wider variety of foods compared to someone managing diabetes.

  • Research indicates that exercise can greatly benefit nondiabetic patients by improving overall health.

Antonyms

diabetic
43 3.9

Relating to a condition where the body cannot control blood sugar

Surface Forms

nondiabetic positive

Morphology

nondiabetic = diabetic (transparent) = non + diabetic

Built by the productive prefix 'non-' added to 'diabetic', yielding a straightforward negation meaning.

Etymology

The word nondiabetic is made of the part non- meaning 'not' and diabetic, which comes from diabetes, the illness. So it describes someone or something that is 'not related to' or 'not having diabetes'.