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单词 diabetes
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diabetesn.

Brit. /ˌdʌɪəˈbiːtiːz/, /ˌdʌɪəˈbiːtɪs/, U.S. /ˌdaɪəˈbidiz/, /ˌdaɪəˈbidᵻs/
Forms:

α. late Middle English–1600s diabete, 1500s diabethe.

β. late Middle English 1600s diabites, 1500s– diabetes, 1600s dyabetes.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin diabētēs.
Etymology: < classical Latin diabētēs siphon, in post-classical Latin also denoting the disease (5th cent.) < ancient Greek διαβήτης compass, in Hellenistic Greek also siphon, and denoting the disease < διαβαίνειν to pass through ( < δια- dia- prefix1 + βαίνειν to go: see basis n.) + -της, suffix forming agent nouns.In α. forms either showing omission of the ending of the Latin word, or reflecting the ablative singular form diabētē (compare quot. ?a1425 at sense 1aα. ). Compare Middle French diabete (1520 in a translation of Chauliac; French diabète), Italian diabete (a1492).
1.
a. Medicine. Originally: disease characterized by the passage of large quantities of urine or by incontinence of urine. In later use: spec. any of a group of metabolic disorders in which the body’s ability to produce or respond to the hormone insulin is impaired; = diabetes mellitus n. Also: an instance or case of such disease.See also diabetes insipidus n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > metabolic disorders > [noun] > diabetes
diabetes?a1425
pissing evil1565
pot dropsy1625
diabetic1660
diabetes mellitus1788
sugar-disease1849
saccharine diabetes1874
α.
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 181 (MED) Auicen forsoþ in diabete [L. in dyabete] graunteþ water of whey of shepis mylke.
1566 W. Painter tr. O. Landi Delectable Demaundes f. 40 Whereof commeth the disease which Phisitians do cal Diabethe? It is a disease in the raines, and commeth of the feblenes of the same.
1592 N. Gyer Eng. Phlebotomy xiii. 138 The vrine bee made immoderately..in the infirmity called Diabete.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 343 As opposite, the Diabete..Distills vs still.
1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xvii. lvi. 688 The Diabete is a disease, wherein presently after one hath drunke the urine is presently made in great plenty, by the dissolution of the retentive faculty of the reines.
β. a1475 tr. Gilbertus Anglicus Pharmaceutical Writings (Wellcome) (1991) 260 Diabites is an vnmesurable pissing of vrin þat comeþ of grete drienes of þe reynes.1562 W. Turner Bk. Natures Bathes Eng. f. 7, in 2nd Pt. Herball It is good for the flixe to the chamber pot called of the beste Physicianes Diabetes, that is when a man maketh water oft and much.1572 J. Jones Bathes of Bathes Ayde i. f. 6v Diabetes which is the ouer making of water.1649 N. Culpeper Physicall Directory 70 [It] helps the Diabetes, or continual pissing.1690 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 106 The earl of Gainsborough died lately of a diabetes.1716 E. Strother Criticon Febrium 173 Diarrhœa's and Diabetes are cured by the same Methods, (viz. by Rhabarbarates, Agglutinants Mucilaginous, Stypticks, and Opiates).1769 B. Alexander tr. G. B. Morgagni Seats & Causes Dis. II. iii. 465 A certain Count, who had laboured under a diabetes.1845 G. E. Day tr. J. F. Simon Animal Chem. I. 327 Rollo was..the first who proved the presence of sugar in the blood during diabetes.1875 T. H. Tanner Man. Pract. Med. (ed. 7) I. 28 A temporary diabetes can occasionally be produced by the excessive consumption of sugar or starch.1919 M. Gyte Diary 25 Jan. (1999) 207 Poor Cyril Mellor..was buried. He died either Wednesday or Thursday of Diabetes, aged 21.1988 B. Desai Memory of Elephants 224 Finally the years took their toll; in the end he had ulcers, high blood pressure, diabetes, two strokes, a weak heart.2012 Guardian 5 Dec. 16/4 Jack has left the insulin injections behind and takes just two tablets of glibenclamide every day to manage his diabetes.
b. figurative and in figurative contexts. A state or condition likened to diabetes, esp. one characterized by (in early use) an excessive outpouring or effusion of something, or (in later use) an excess or surfeit of sweetness.
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1656 W. Dillingham Prove All Things ii. 37 He takes it in, but it stayes not with him, being distempered with a kind of intellectual diabetes.
1663 J. Birkenhead Assembly-man 19 Ever sick of a Diabete.
1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica ii. viii. 273 What is the reason of this Diabetes Celestial, when the Clouds are so often dropping, and can't hold?
1703 W. Pittis True-born-Hugonot 17 Whose Pen showr's Ink like the descending Rain, And speaks the Diabetes of his Brain.
1771 F. Fleming Life & Adventures Timothy Ginnadrake I. viii. 165 A disorder..called a diabetes of the mind.
1829 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. 2nd Ser. I. iii. 81 Knowing your diabetes of mind.
1884 Congregationalist Jan. 14 People suffering from what I may call mental diabetes select the sugar and water from whatever is presented to them, and reject the more nutritive matter.
1915 Internat. Socialist Rev. July 58/2 The severe case of political diabetes, which the party has suffered from in the past,..has met a decided check.
1993 Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) (Nexis) 3 July 15 Movies like Homeward Bound can in high dosages lead straight to the debilitating shame of emotional diabetes.
2004 C. Stroud Cobraville 177 Senators got force-fed a steady diet of deference sickly sweet enough to give them all a kind of spiritual diabetes.
2. A siphon. Obsolete. rare.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > conduit, channel, or tube > pipe > syphon
crane1634
siphon1659
diabetes1662
1662 R. Boyle tr. P. Gassendi in Def. Doctr. Spring & Weight of Air 111 in New Exper. Physico-mechanical (ed. 2) If a Glass Diabetes or Syringe be made of a sufficient length.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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