Diabetes terms starting with T

10 terms

  1. Temporary Precipitating Factor A transient unforeseen or unknown event that contributes to or results in insulin reaction episodes in spite of consciousness efforts by a person with…
  2. Therapy for Management (Regimen of Therapy) The treatment of disease by various methods. The key to treating and managing diabetes is controlling the blood glucose concentration…
  3. Tight Control Suggested by the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial ten year study and the American Diabetes Association as an important way to delay the onset and…
  4. Tissue Damage Impairment of the usefulness of the four basic tissues in the body: (1) membranous tissue, epithelium , (2) the connective tissues; including blood, bone…
  5. Topical Burning An indirect reference of intense heat pertaining to a local part on the body.
  6. Tumefactions Swelling and edema caused by insulin injections.
  7. type 1 diabetes A condition in which the pancreas makes so little insulin that the body can’t use blood glucose as energy.
  8. type 2 diabetes A condition in which the body either makes too little insulin or can’t use the insulin it makes to use blood glucose as energy.
  9. Type I Diabetes See Insulin Dependent Diabetes.
  10. Type II Diabetes See Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus.