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Index
Index of Dictionary Terms
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Team Management
Describes a diabetes treatment approach in which medical care is
provided by a physician, diabetes nurse educator, dietitian, and
behavioral scientist working together with the patient.
Thrush
An infection of the mouth. In people with diabetes, this
infection may be caused by high levels of glucose (sugar) in
mouth fluserids, which helps the growth of fungus that causes the
infection. Patches of whitish-colored skin in the mouth are signs
of this disease.
Tolazamide
A pill taken to lower the level of glucose (sugar) in the blood.
Only some people with noninsulin-dependent diabetes take these
pills. See also: Oral hypoglycemic agents.
Tolbutamide
A pill taken to lower the level of glucose (sugar) in the blood.
Only some people with noninsulin-dependent diabetes take these
pills. See also: Oral hypoglycemic agents.
Toxemia of
Pregnancy
A condition in pregnant women in which poisons such as the body's
own waste products build up and may cause harm to both the mother
and baby. The first signs of toxemia are swelling near the eyes
and ankles (edema), headache, high blood pressure, and weight
gain that the mother might confuse with the normal weight gain of
being pregnant. The mother may have both glucose (sugar) and
acetone in her urine. The mother should tell the doctor about
these signs at once.
Toxic
Harmful; having to do with poison.
Transcutaneous Electronic Nerve
Stimulation (TENS)
A treatment for painful neuropathy.
Trauma
A wound, hurt, or injury to the body. Trauma can also be mental
such as when a person feels great stress.
Triglyceride
A type of blood fat. The body needs insulin to remove this type
of fat from the blood. When diabetes is under control and a
person's weight is what it should be, the level of triglycerides
in the blood is usually about what it should be.
Twenty-Four Hour
Urine
The total amount of a person's urine for a 24-hour period.
Diabetes type 1 mellitus
See: Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
Diabetes type 2 mellitus
See: Noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
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