Diabetes

Diabetes

A disease in which the body doesn't produce or properly use insulin. Insulin is needed to convert sugar and starch into the energy needed in daily life. The full name for this condition is diabetes mellitus.

This is auto-generated content. You can help to improve it.

0 0

Improve it

Add an image

Part of Speech: noun
Synonym(s):
Blossary:
Industry/Domain: Medical devices
Category: Cardiac supplies
Company: Boston Scientific
Product:
Acronym-Abbreviation:

Collect to Blossary

Other Languages:

Related terms

diabetes

Medical; Herbal medicine

Properly diabetes mellitus, it is a disease characterized by high blood sugar levels and sugar in the urine. Diabetes is really several disorders, generally broken down into ...

diabetes

Medical; Illness

A disease in which a person has too much sugar in the blood. In this disease, body does not produce enough insulin.Urine output, thirst, hunger, and fatigue are main symptoms.

diabetes

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

A disease associated with the absence or reduced levels of insulin, which is a hormone essential for the transport of glucose to cells.

diabetes

Health care; Diabetes treatment

A condition characterized by hyperglycemia (high blood glucose) resulting from the body’s inability to use blood glucose for energy. In type 1 diabetes, the pancreas no longer ...

instructions for use

Biotechnology; Health care; Life Sciences; Medical; Biochemistry; Biofuel; Biomedical; Behavioral science

"a manual usually accompanying a technical device and explaining how to install or operate it" Essential Requirements - Medical Device Directive 93/42/EEC - Annex I, 13.1: Each ...

description

Biotechnology; Health care; Life Sciences; Medical; Biochemistry; Biofuel; Biomedical; Behavioral science

description a statement presenting something in words, from verb describe

scar

Medical devices; Cardiac supplies

An area of tissue that has healed after tissue destruction has occurred. It is electrically inactive. Electrically inactive tissue cannot transmit electrical signals.

sensing

Medical devices; Cardiac supplies

The monitoring function of an implanted pacemaker or defibrillator system that allows the device to detect the heart's natural electrical activity.

sensor

Medical devices; Cardiac supplies

The part of an implanted system that detects the body's need for a different heart rate. The system uses sensor information to provide the proper heart rate.