How to pronounce“diabetes”in English
IPA/ˌdaɪəˈbitiz/
Syllablesdi·a·be·tes
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noun
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.
“In the UK, one in 10 people over 40 live with type 2 diabetes, while one in four have high blood pressure, a condition described as a “silent killer” because it increases the risk of heart attack and stroke but rarely causes symptoms beforehand.”
noun
Any food or beverage with a high amount of sugar.
“This milkshake is pure diabetes, as my friends and I agreed on as a joke when we first came to Black Tap.”