diabetogenicadj.
/ˌdʌɪəbɛtə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnɪk/, /ˌdʌɪəbiːtə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnɪk/, U.S. /ˌdaɪəˌbɛdəˈdʒɛnɪk/, /ˌdaɪəˌbidəˈdʒɛnɪk/ Medicine.
Causing diabetes; of or relating to the causation of diabetes.
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diabetogenic1894
1894 Birmingham Med. Rev. 36 48 He [sc. Hédon] believes that the blood of diabetic animals contains no diabetogenic substance, founding his belief on the negative result of the intra-venous injections of diabetic blood.
1898 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 5 Nov. 1435/1 He admits that the facts tend to show that there are other diabetogenic organs besides the pancreas.
1938 Encycl. Brit. Bk. of Year 227/2 The full diabetogenic effect—namely excretion of sugar and ketones in the urine.
1946 Nature 26 Oct. 589/1 The intravenous injection of high diabetogenic doses of alloxan..in the dog produces a very severe diabetic-uræmic syndrome.
1970 W. B. Yapp Introd. Animal Physiol. (ed. 3) vi. 165 Probably the ‘diabetogenic hormone’ and ‘ketogenic hormone’ that have been described were simply impure preparations of it [sc. growth hormone].
2006 Science 24 Mar. 1779/3 The spleen cells from the treated mice transferred diabetes when injected into NOD.scid recipients, which demonstrates that diabetogenic T cells had persisted.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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