Definition of "diabetic" []

• Of, relating to, having, or resulting from diabetes: diabetic patients; a diabetic coma. (adjective)
• Intended for use by a person with diabetes: diabetic candy. (adjective)
• A person who has diabetes. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "My point about the diabetic is to counter the claim that it doesn't make sense to use insurance to pay for routine things."
• "What if the newly-diagnosed diabetic is 64 years old?"
• "The thing the article doesn't mention in much detail, presumably because the writer isn't diabetic, is how awful hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) feels."