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Diabetic Word Of The Week

Diabetes

 Usually 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 from the Greek word meaning “a siphon” because people with diabetes “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.

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Latin word of the Day~ Expand Your Vocabulary

Word: familia, familiae (n) – family, friends

Sentence: “Cum saepe multa, tum memini domi in hemicyclio sedentem, ut solebat, cum et ego essem una et pauci admodum familiares, in eum sermonem illum incidere qui tum forte multis erat in ore.” (Cicero De Amicitia) I often remember, among many other things, one time he was sitting in a semicircle of chairs at his home, as he used to, when I and a very few of his friends were there, and a man came up in conversation who was then on everyone’s lips.

English Derivative: family (n) – “the basic unit in society traditionally consisting of two parents rearing their children” – Merriam-Webster https://latinwordoftheday.com/

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Poem

Lost Love

Whispers of a lost love

Remnants of a time past

Once was is now a time gone

One left the other was left to roam

People came and then they went

If only they had said what they meant

It just was and still is

Ever there, yet still missed.

MwsR ❤