(n.) A disease which is attended with a persistent, excessive discharge of urine. Most frequently the urine is not only increased in quantity, but contains saccharine matter, in which case the disease is generally fatal.
Example Sentences:
(1) All rats were examined in the conscious, unrestrained state 12 wk after induction of diabetes or acidified saline (pH 4.5) injection.
(2) The main finding of this study is that diabetic adolescents with a high erythrocyte Na,Li countertransport rate have an arterial pressure significantly higher than patients with normal Na,Li countertransport fluxes.
(3) 5 pregnant insulin-dependent diabetics were also studied.
(4) 278 children with bronchial asthma were medically, socially and psychologically compared to 27 rheumatic and 19 diabetic children.
(5) Based on several previous studies, which demonstrated that sorbitol accumulation in human red blood cells (RBCs) was a function of ambient glucose concentrations, either in vitro or in vivo, our investigations were conducted to determine if RBC sorbitol accumulation would correlate with sorbitol accumulation in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats; the effect of sorbinil in reducing sorbitol levels in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats would be reflected by changes in RBC sorbitol; and sorbinil would reduce RBC sorbitol in diabetic man.
(6) The difference in HDL and HDL2 cholesterol concentrations between the MI+ and MI- groups or between the MI+ and CHD- groups persisted after adjustment by analysis of covariance for the effect of physical activity, alcohol intake, obesity, duration of diabetes, and glycemic control.
(7) Obesity in the Pimas is familial and has complex relationships with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, a common disease in this population.
(8) Maternal diabetes and antihistamine use during the last 2 weeks of pregnancy were associated with significantly higher rates of retrolental fibroplasia, whereas toxemia was associated with lower rates.
(9) Treatment for diabetic neuropathy remains inadequate.
(10) Current recommendations regarding contraception in patients with diabetes are not appropriate for the adolescent population and therefore tend to support this phenomenon rather than relieve it.
(11) There was no correlation between disturbed gastric clearance, impaired gall bladder contraction, and prolonged colonic transit time in the patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy nor was there a correlation between any disturbed motor function and age or duration of diabetes.
(12) From the present results it is concluded that secretion of extrapancreatic glucagon increased in response to arginine infusion in the diabetic state, both alloxan diabetic dogs and one-week post-pancreatectomized dogs.
(13) The prevalence of diabetes was 36% higher among San Antonio Mexican Americans than among Mexicans in Mexico City; this difference was highly statistically significant (age- and sex-adjusted prevalence ratio 1.36, P = 0.006).
(14) None of the animals injected with either CD4+ or CD8+ T cells became overtly diabetic during the 30 days of observation whereas 8 of 23 mice inoculated with a mixture of the two subsets developed glycosuria and hyperglycemia.
(15) Cytosolic-to-mitochondrial ratios from maximal initial rates after correction for mitochondrial breakage were increased above controls in diabetic hearts for nucleoside diphosphokinase and aspartate aminotransferase.
(16) IgG antibody titres to Coxsackie B1-B6 were measured in 113 insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) patients whose mean age was 12.2 years and mean duration of IDDM was 4.6 years, and in 87 normal sibling controls whose mean age was 13.8 years.
(17) Acute effects of insulin on protein metabolism (whole body and forearm muscle) were simultaneously assessed using doubly labelled (13C15N) leucine in post-absorptive Type I diabetic patients.
(18) Efficacy and tolerability of perorally administered desmopressin were evaluated in 12 adult patients suffering from central diabetes insipidus.
(19) It is suggested that diabetes causes selective changes in the functioning of Gi in adipocyte membranes which removes the tonic GTP-dependent inhibitory function of this G-protein.
(20) Cholera toxin-catalysed ADP-ribosylation identified two forms of Gs alpha-subunits whose labelling was about 4-fold greater in membranes from diabetic animals compared with those from lean animals.
Hypo
Definition:
(n.) Hypochondria.
(n.) Sodium hyposulphite, or thiosulphate, a solution of which is used as a bath to wash out the unchanged silver salts in a picture.
Example Sentences:
(1) These data suggest that in terms of prolactin release, prolactin producing tumour cells are intrinsically refractory to hypo thalamic dopaminergic signals.
(2) Quantitative cytophotometry and ocular filar micrometry were used to monitor T-2 toxin induced alterations in chromatin and neuronal nuclear volume in supraoptic-magnocellular neurons of rat hypo-thalami.
(3) Unlike previous studies with 13-cis-retinoic acid during the pre- and early organogenic stages of development (Hummler et al., Teratology 42:263-272, 1990), no thymic hypo- or aplasia or heart anomalies were observed, which may be attributable to the slightly longer 13-cis retinoic acid treatment period, i.e., GD 10-27.
(4) HYPO-ORS produced net sodium and chloride absorption whereas the low sodium UK-ORS produced a net secretion of these ions.
(5) Both hypo- and hypercalcemia were associated with elevated serum alkaline phosphatase levels.
(6) Quadriceps strength, relaxation rate, fibre-type composition and energy-turnover rate during a submaximal contraction have been measured in hypo- and hyper-thyroid patients and compared with findings in normal subjects.
(7) Argentaffinic cells were found in patients with hypo- and unacid gastric juice only.
(8) The rheumatoid T cells are hypo-responsive after stimulation with antigens and anti-CD3 antibodies which indicate that the CD3-TCR complex has been modulated in vivo.
(9) Trypanosoma catostomi from Catostomus commersoni was isolated in hypo-osmotic blood agar media but not in hyper-osmotic media.
(10) Slight hypoprotenemia, moderate hypo-albuminemia, slight hyper-alpha globulinemia and tendency of hyper-beta globulinemia were commonly observed in the affected cows.
(11) Four had no parietal (oxyntic) cells in the gastric mucosa, suggesting hypo- or anacidity.
(12) The ICMP diagnosis is based on considerably increased ventriculographic volumetric parameters, and diffuse hypo- and akinesia of the left ventricle with the ejection fraction falling below 30% in patients with coronarographically-documented coronary arterial lesions.
(13) They showed symmetric weakness and tenderness of the proximal muscles, peripheral hypoesthesia and hypo even areflexia.
(14) Most of the original hyper-endemic areas became meso- or hypo-endemic and for most of the previously meso- or hypo-endemic areas, the disease became sporadic.
(15) The correlation between the arterial PO2 and the perilymphatic PO2 is so close that even hypo- or hyperventilation in presence of air does influence the oxygen content of the perilymphatic space.
(16) Hypo- or akinesis of the posterobasal and sometimes the lateral wall was seen in 8, and a posterior wall to septal amplitude ratio of less than or equal to 1.1 in 9 patients.
(17) Six of the 7 hypo-avascular cases had a high percentage of sarcomatoid tissue (greater than 50%) and were highly malignant.
(18) Furthermore, hypo-Se and hyper-Se pigs were hypo- and hypercupremic, respectively, suggesting genetic regulation of copper status.
(19) Solid and hemorrhagic areas of the pituitary tumor were hypo- to isointense relative to surrounding brain and did not take up contrast agent.
(20) CT-Scan showed irregular hypo-hyperdense zones and features of intratumoral cysts.