The term diabetes is Greek word meaning what?

Answer 1

Diabetes (di-a-be'-tez) [Greek. diabainein-to cross through] A disease characterized by polyuria.
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Answer 2

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Answer 3

Diabetes is named for one of its distressing symptoms. The disease was known to the Greeks as diabētēs, a word derived from the verb diabainein, made up of the prefix dia–, “across, apart,” and the word bainein, “to walk, stand.” The verb diabeinein meant “to stride, walk, or stand with legs asunder”; hence, its derivative diabētēs meant “one that straddles,” or specifically “a compass, siphon.” The sense “siphon” gave rise to the use of diabētēs as the name for a disease involving the discharge of excessive amounts of urine. Diabetes is first recorded in English, in the form diabete, in a medical text written around 1425.

Answer 4

Diabetes is named for one of its distressing symptoms. The disease was known to the Greeks as diabts, a word derived from the verb diabainein, made up of the prefix dia-, “across, apart,” and the word bainein, “to walk, stand.” The verb diabeinein meant “to stride, walk, or stand with legs asunder” hence, its derivative diabts meant “one that straddles,” or specifically “a compass, siphon.” The sense “siphon” gave rise to the use of diabts as the name for a disease involving the discharge of excessive amounts of urine. Diabetes is first recorded in English, in the form diabete, in a medical text written around 1425.

Answer 5

Diabetes: Refers to diabetes mellitus or, less often, to diabetes insipidus. Diabetes mellitus and diabetes insipidus share the name "diabetes" because they are both conditions characterized by excessive urination (polyuria).

The word "diabetes" is borrowed from the Greek word meaning "a siphon." The 2nd-century A.D. Greek physician, Aretus the Cappadocian, named the condition "diabetes." He explained that patients with it had polyuria and "passed water like a siphon."

When "diabetes" is used alone, it refers to diabetes mellitus. The two main types of diabetes mellitus -- insulin-requiring type 1 diabetes and adult-onset type 2 diabetes -- are distinct and different diseases in themselves

Answer 6

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Answer 7

From the yankee heritage Dictionary: center English diabete, from Medieval Latin diabts, from Latin, from Greek, siphon, diabetes, from diabainein, to pass over, straddle : dia-, dia- + bainein, to pass; see gw- in Indo-eu roots

Answer 8

diabetes is derived from greek words i.e dia=die bete=beats me and es=es the greek god of sugar

Answer 9

It just comes vaguly from a word being "siphon" or to "run like a siphon" for the whole word...the word "dia" means through. I believe the betes part is the "siphon" part.

Answer 10

diabetes:
1562, from L. diabetes, from Gk. diabetes "excessive discharge of urine," lit. "a passer-through, siphon," from diabainein "to pass through," from dia- "through" + bainein "to go" (see come). An old native name for it was pissing evil. The noun diabetic is from 1840.