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24 wrz 2024 · Latin. [edit] Etymology. [edit] From mel (“honey”) + -ītus. Pronunciation. [edit] (Classical Latin) IPA (key): /melˈliː.tus/, [mɛlˈlʲiːt̪ʊs̠] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA (key): /melˈli.tus/, [melˈliːt̪us] Adjective. [edit] mellītus (feminine mellīta, neuter mellītum); first / second-declension adjective. Of or pertaining to honey.
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8 lis 2024 · In the 1800s, dogs helped people study how the pancreas and lack of the hormone insulin revealed signs of diabetes. In the 1930s, up through the 1970s, society commonly referred to individuals with diabetes as having “sugar,” but the correct medical term for diabetes is "diabetes mellitus."
21 cze 2023 · Diabetes mellitus is taken from the Greek word diabetes, meaning siphon - to pass through and the Latin word mellitus meaning sweet. A review of the history shows that the term "diabetes" was first used by Apollonius of Memphis around 250 to 300 BC.
The earliest known use of the noun diabetes mellitus is in the late 1700s. OED's earliest evidence for diabetes mellitus is from 1788, in a translation by G. Wallis. diabetes mellitus is a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin diabetes mellitus. See etymology.
The condition known today as diabetes (usually referring to diabetes mellitus) is thought to have been described in the Ebers Papyrus (c. 1550 BC). Ayurvedic physicians (5th/6th century BC) first noted the sweet taste of diabetic urine, and called the condition madhumeha ("honey urine").
4 lip 2023 · Diabetes mellitus is derived from the Greek word diabetes meaning siphon - to pass through and the Latin word mellitus meaning honeyed or sweet. This is because in diabetes excess sugar is...
25 maj 2021 · diabetes. (n.) medical name of a set of affections characterized by abnormal discharge of urine, 1560s, from medical Latin diabetes, from late Greek diabetes "excessive discharge of urine" (so named by Aretaeus the Cappadocian, physician of Alexandria, 2c.), literally "a passer-through, siphon," from diabainein "to pass through," from dia ...
