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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
diabeta is a noun meaning "an oral antidiabetic drug (trade names DiaBeta and Micronase) that stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas". It carries one recorded sense.
an oral antidiabetic drug (trade names DiaBeta and Micronase) that stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas
trade name
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for diabeta come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.