diabetes
Meaning of diabetes
noun
a disease in which the body’s ability to produce or respond to the hormone insulin is impaired, resulting in abnormal metabolism of carbohydrates and elevated levels of glucose in the blood.
mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek, literally ‘siphon’, from diabainein ‘go through’; mellitus is from Latin mellitus ‘sweet’.
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Hyphenation of diabetes
di-a-betes
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- diabetes is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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