Diabetes mellitus; any of a group of metabolic diseases whereby a person (or other animal) has high blood sugar due to an inability to produce, or inability to metabolize, sufficient quantities of the hormone insulin.

Of or pertaining to diabetes, especially diabetes mellitus. / Having diabetes, especially diabetes mellitus. / Suitable for one having diabetes, especially diabetes mellitus.

A person with diabetes, usually diabetes mellitus (but see people-first language).

plural of diabetic

In terms of, or by means of, diabetes.

Archaic form of diabetic.

A disease characterized by excretion of large amount of severely diluted urine, which cannot be reduced when fluid intake is reduced. It is generally related to a tumor or insult to the pituitary gland, where the hormonal signals the pituitary gives to the kidneys break down, and the kidneys do not conserve water, but express all water as urine. This is a rather rare disease.

A medical disorder commonly called diabetes, characterized by varying or persistent hyperglycemia (high blood sugar levels), especially after eating.

(informal, dated) Diabetes mellitus.

hemochromatosis