diabetes

英 [,da??'bi?ti?z] 美[,da??'bitiz]

TEM8GRE擴展詞匯CET6+中低頻詞

diabetes 糖尿病的

dia-, 穿過。-bet, 走，詞源同come,acrobat,advent. 在古希臘用來指尿液過多的疾病癥狀。

diabetes: diabetes: [16] Diabetes means literally ‘passing through’; it was originally so named in Greek because one of the symptoms of the disease is excessive discharge of urine. Greek diabétēs was a derivative of diabaínein ‘pass through’, a compound verb formed from the prefix dia- ‘through’ and baínein ‘go’ (a relative of English basis and come). English acquired it via medieval Latin diabētēs. Compare DIARRHOEA.
=> basis, come
diabetes (n.): 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- "through" (see dia-) + bainein "to go" (see come).

An old common native name for it was pissing evil. In classical Greek, diabainein meant "to stand or walk with the legs apart," and diabetes meant "a drafting compass," from the position of the legs.

2. People with high blood pressure are especially vulnerable to diabetes.: 有高血壓的人尤其易患糖尿病。

4. In case of diabetes, physicians advise against the use of sugar.: 對于糖尿病患者, 醫生告誡他們不要吃糖.

5. In the past, about a third of the babies born to women with diabetes were lost.: 過去，患有糖尿病的女性生下的孩子中約有1/3夭折了。