Question = India is the capital of this disease having highest no.of patients in the world ? The name of this disease was first recorded in a medical text around 1425.?
Answer = DIABETES.
The word "diabetes" is first recorded in English, in the form diabete, in a medical text written around 1425.
The word diabetes fomcient Latin diabētēs, which in turn comes from Ancient Greek.(diabētēs) which literally means "a passer through; a siphon. Ancient Greek physician Aretaeus of Cappadocial (1st century CE) used that word, with the intended meaning "excessive discharge of urine", as the name for the disease.Ultimately, the word comes from Greek (diabainein), meaning "to pass through," which is composed of (dia-), meaning "through" and (bainein), meaning "to go".
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