DIABETIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diabetic mean? 

• DIABETIC (noun)
  The noun DIABETIC has 1 sense:

1. someone who has diabetes

  Familiarity information: DIABETIC used as a noun is very rare.

• DIABETIC (adjective)
  The adjective DIABETIC has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to or causing diabetes

2. suffering from diabetes

  Familiarity information: DIABETIC used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIABETIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who has diabetes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("diabetic" is a kind of...):

diseased person; sick person; sufferer (a person suffering from an illness)

Derivation:

diabetic (suffering from diabetes)

• DIABETIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or causing diabetes

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

diabetes (a polygenic disease characterized by abnormally high glucose levels in the blood; any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst)

Derivation:

diabetes (a polygenic disease characterized by abnormally high glucose levels in the blood; any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Suffering from diabetes

Similar:

ill; sick (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function)

Derivation:

diabetes (a polygenic disease characterized by abnormally high glucose levels in the blood; any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst)

diabetic (someone who has diabetes)

 Context examples 

And they actually have alert dogs that work with diabetic patients that can tell when a patient is going into hypoglycemia.

(The Dog's Nose Knows Malaria, Kevin Enochs/VOA)

The most common problem is diabetic retinopathy.

(Diabetic Eye Problems, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

C. minutissimum causes erythrasma and pruritic scaly rashes in diabetic patients.

(Corynebacterium minutissimum, NCI Thesaurus)

A grouping of individuals on the basis of a shared procedure or disease, or lack thereof (e.g. healthy volunteers, type 2 diabetic subjects, subjects with renal cell cancer).

(CDISC SDTM Diagnosis Group Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

This gene is involved in the regulation of gene expression and plays a role in the development of epithelial ovarian carcinoma and diabetic nephropathy.

(MIR377 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

About 2-5% of type II diabetic patients suffer from a monogenic disease with autosomal dominant inheritance.

(Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

You are most likely to get Bell's palsy if you are pregnant, diabetic or sick with a cold or flu.

(Bell's Palsy, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

Fetopathy found in infants of diabetic mothers that includes fetal macrosomia, hyperinsulinemia, and hyperglycemia.

(Diabetic Fetopathy, NCI Thesaurus)

A hypoglycemic reaction to overdosage of insulin, a skipped meal, or strenuous exercise in an insulin-dependent diabetic.

(Insulin Shock, NCI Thesaurus)

The infants of diabetic mothers are large for their gestational age and may develop hypoglycemic episodes soon after birth.

(Infant of Diabetic Mother, NCI Thesaurus)