sugar diabetes
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]- (informal, dated) Diabetes mellitus.
- 1862, "A Good Deed Requires No Praise" (classified ad), New York Times, Jun. 18, p. 5,
- In February, 1861, I was afflicted with the sugar diabetes.
- 1972 May 21, “A Medicine Man Heard at Parley”, in New York Times, page 21:
- In the Southwest there are some 35 curanderos like Mr. Cruz, who says he has treated with success patients with arthritis and sugar diabetes.
- 1862, "A Good Deed Requires No Praise" (classified ad), New York Times, Jun. 18, p. 5,
References
[edit]- “sugar diabetes”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "sugar diabetes" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002)