A medical disorder characterized by varying or persistent hyperglycemia (high blood sugar levels), especially after eating.
Origin
International scientific vocabulary, from New Latin, from diabetes + mellitus, "diabetes of the sweet type" (from the fact that in centuries past, physicians sometimes tasted a patient's urine to help diagnose the illness)
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