diabetes
/ˌdaɪəˈbitiz/ 名词 B2中文： 糖尿病
- Diabetes mellitus; any of a group of metabolic diseases whereby a person (or other animal) has high blood sugar due to an inability to produce, or inability to metabolize, sufficient quantities of the hormone insulin.
- Any food or beverage with a high amount of sugar.
- Diabetes insipidus; any condition characterized by excessive or incontinent urine, now specifically as caused by impaired production of, or response to, the antidiuretic hormone vasopressin.
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Before 1922, a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes was, for most children, a sentence of death.
The work was slow: through the summer heat, the two men tested extract after extract on dogs with diabetes, with results that were often confusing or simply wrong.
In 1969, after thirty-four years of work, Dorothy Hodgkin and her team at Oxford finally worked out the three-dimensional structure of insulin, the hormone that people with type 1 diabetes cannot produce.
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