diabetes

• 糖尿病；多尿

dia-, 通して。-古代ギリシアで尿過多という病気の症状を指すのに使われた。

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.

1. My doctor wants me to be tested for diabetes .

私の医者は私に糖尿病にかかっているかどうかを検査するように言った。

2.People with high blood pressure are especially vulnerable to diabetes .

高血圧の人は特に糖尿病にかかりやすい。

3.He suffered from diabetes and gastric ulcers.

糖尿病と胃潰瘍を患っている。

4.In case of diabetes ，physicians advise against the use of sugar.

糖尿病患者に対して、医者は砂糖を食べないように警告した。

5.In the past,about a third of the babies born to women with diabetes were lost.

過去、糖尿病を患う女性が出産した子供の約1/3が夭折した。