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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
diabetic
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
care
▪ This study has shown that an acceptable standard of diabetic care can be provided in normal surgery time.
▪ Health gain has been rather narrowly defined in primary care studies of diabetic care to date.
▪ Even with these advances I am sure that diabetic care will focus on helping patients to care for themselves effectively.
▪ The findings support concentrating diabetic care on partners with special interests in diabetes in well equipped practices with adequate dietetic support.
▪ No practice audits of diabetic care were under way during the study.
clinic
▪ A most useful exercise in the diabetic clinic is inspection of injection sites.
▪ The major part of teaching, motivating and assessing what has been learned should take place outside the diabetic clinic.
▪ This difference in prescribing between rural and urban areas was found almost exclusively in patients not attending a hospital diabetic clinic.
▪ It is complementary to the diabetic clinic and is quite at home dealing with children or pregnant diabetics.
▪ In the control group all occurred in hospital diabetic clinics whereas for the prompted group 67% occurred in general practice.
▪ A new patient attends the diabetic clinic and is informed that he has diabetes.
▪ Some patients regard diabetic clinic days as holy days and fast for them!
▪ Patients may only record negative urine testing results in the preprandial state and starve themselves before the diabetic clinic.
control
▪ Severe lipaemia in an undiagnosed diabetic will usually resolve with the institution of insulin therapy and effective diabetic control.
▪ This test has been suggested for use as a monitor of diabetic control.
▪ Prostacyclin Information about the effect of diabetic control on prostacyclin production comes from animal studies.
▪ Case 3 - An insulin dependent diabetic woman aged 74 gave a history of nausea for one week and poor diabetic control.
▪ For these reasons studies detailing the effects of diabetic control on platelet function must be interpreted with caution.
▪ However, bearing in mind these constraints; what is the current evidence linking diabetic control and platelet function?
▪ The unpaired t test was used to compare the mean levels of diabetic control in two groups by means of a two sided test.
patient
▪ Conclusion - Angiotensin I converting enzyme inhibition by enalapril effectively reduces microalbuminuria in normotensive diabetic patients whereas hydrochlorothiazide is not effective.
▪ For twenty-one years, he treated thousands of obese and diabetic patients, three-fourths of them women, with very little success.
▪ All three diabetic patients had a satisfactory outcome despite the fact that one of them has severe autonomic neuropathy.
▪ The concern comes after a reported increase in deaths of diabetic patients, most relying on genetically engineered human insulin.
▪ Most people caring for diabetic patients realise the importance of the patient actively participating in the very first injection of insulin.
▪ Results in studies of diabetic patients are consistent with this hypothesis.
▪ When these cells were incubated with serum from diabetic patients prostacyclin production was inhibited.
subject
▪ These findings were unchanged when the non-insulin dependent diabetic subjects were excluded from the analyses.
▪ Another site of damage in diabetes may be the microcirculation which might be important in disease of the myocardium in diabetic subjects.
▪ In the diabetic subjects studied, therefore, the possibility of gastric retention of solids has not been answered.
▪ Therefore other metabolic abnormalities have been sought in diabetic subjects which might contribute to the increased vascular risk.
▪ Similar relationships may be of equal importance in the diabetic subject.
▪ Spontaneous platelet aggregation Several studies have attempted to assess whether there is evidence of increased circulating platelet aggregates in diabetic subjects.
▪ The non-insulin dependent diabetic subjects had similar birth weight to subjects with normoglycaemia or impaired glucose tolerance.
▪ It is obviously difficult to study arterial prostacyclin production in diabetic subjects.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Anne is diabetic.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Conclusion - Angiotensin I converting enzyme inhibition by enalapril effectively reduces microalbuminuria in normotensive diabetic patients whereas hydrochlorothiazide is not effective.
▪ Daniel was not eligible as a donor because she is diabetic.
▪ In doing so, he developed a blister on his foot that turned into a diabetic ulcer.
▪ It also occurs in alcoholism, diabetic ketoacidosis, and in patients taking antacids which bind phosphate in the gut.
▪ It is obviously difficult to study arterial prostacyclin production in diabetic subjects.
▪ No differences were observed in the diabetic group as a whole compared to controls.
▪ This study has shown that an acceptable standard of diabetic care can be provided in normal surgery time.
▪ Vet says she could be diabetic.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But then came the news his immigration application had been delayed a few weeks because he's a diabetic.
▪ Her stepson Michael Sellers is a diabetic.
▪ Insulin will bring a diabetic to normal without the faintest need of a knife, but appendicitis needs an operation.
▪ Severe lipaemia in an undiagnosed diabetic will usually resolve with the institution of insulin therapy and effective diabetic control.
▪ The diabetic is unable to regulate sugar in this way.
▪ Their potentially adverse effects with particular reference to the diabetic will now be outlined.
▪ Then his weaknesses - alcohol, drugs, any physical weakness such as being a diabetic.
▪ Then the diabetic had suffered a hypoglycaemic attack.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diabetic

Diabetic \Di`a*bet"ic\, Diabetical \Di`a*bet"ic*al\, a. Pertaining to diabetes; as, diabetic or diabetical treatment.
--Quian.

Diabetic sugar. (Chem.) Same as Dextrose. ||

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
diabetic

1799; see diabetes + -ic. From 1840 as a noun.

Wiktionary
diabetic

a. 1 Of or pertaining to diabetes, especially diabetes mellitus. 2 Having diabetes, especially diabetes mellitus. 3 Suitable for one having diabetes mellitus. n. A person who suffers from diabetes mellitus.

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WordNet
diabetic

  1. adj. of or relating to or causing diabetes

  2. suffering from diabetes

diabetic

n. someone who has diabetes

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Usage examples of "diabetic".

In the case of my own locution, the shock being delivered would prove to be a kind of diabetic shock.

My journey toward understanding would become more of a diabetic than a religious pilgrimage.

I want you to live my own story and other diabetic stories to see how this transformation can take place.

Thus, we stocked our little overpriced kitchen with a motley assortment of foodstuff based on my half-hour crash course in diabetic nutrition and my half-baked notion of what the nutritionist had told me.

After returning from the supermarket and surveying the meager pickings available to me, I recalled the griping of a diabetic friend of mine about the diet he was forced to adopt.

The body of a diabetic is not unlike the fragile environment of this dunescape, where the geology, hydrology, wildlife, food chain, and human influences all interact in a delicate dance that determines the health of the whole system.

My whole future depended on getting my diabetic ecology equalized within the shifting sand dunes of my bodily functions.

Cape Cod is worthwhile writing, values that are socially redeeming, a lifestyle that is simplified, relationships that are fruitful, a world view that makes sense, and diabetic maintenance that is effective, healthful, and constant.

In 1995, Jessup developed diabetic retinopathy and ultimately went through eight surgeries on his right eye and five on his left.

They also stuck me in an adult ward and made sure there were diabetic patients who were blind, had amputations, had heart disease, and one who died while I was there.

Before taking up running, Collins suffered from diabetic neuropathy in both feet, a condition that made his feet feel like wood, and his toes like they were all welded together.

I would like my diabetes to be under control and without diabetic complications, and I would like my oral medication to keep working throughout my life.

What she had just suffered was a diabetic coma, or full-blown ketoacidosis, complicated by severe dehydration.

Because everyone there was a diabetic, and they all had to prick their fingers and give themselves shots, and some of them were way worse off than she was.

If diabetic shock brought out the underlying character traits, he liked hers.