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sugar diabetes en · NOUN
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(dated, informal, uncountable) Diabetes mellitus.
1862, "A Good Deed Requires No Praise" (classified ad), New York Times, Jun. 18, p. 5,
In February, 1861, I was afflicted with the sugar diabetes.
In the Southwest there are some 35 curanderos like Mr. Cruz, who says he has treated with success patients with arthritis and sugar diabetes.
1972 May 21, “A Medicine Man Heard at Parley”, in New York Times, page 21: