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What other kind of diabetes is there?
From Microsoft bookshelf (American Heritage Dictionary)

Diabetes (dì´e-bê´tîs, -têz) noun
Any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive discharge of
urine and persistent thirst, especially one of the two types of diabetes
mellitus.

[Middle English diabete, from Medieval Latin diabêtês, from Latin, from
Greek, siphon, diabetes, from diabainein, to cross over, straddle :
dia-, dia- + bainein, to go.]

Word History: Diabetes is named for one of its distressing symptoms.
The disease was known to the Greeks as diabêtês, a word derived from the
verb diabainein, made up of the prefix dia-, "across, apart," and the
word bainein, "to walk, stand." The verb diabeinein meant "to stride,
walk, or stand with legs asunder"; hence, its derivative diabêtês meant
"one that straddles," or specifically "a compass, siphon." The sense
"siphon" gave rise to the use of diabêtês as the name for a disease
involving the discharge of excessive amounts of urine. Diabetes is first
recorded in English, in the form diabete, in a medical text written
around 1425.

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