diabetic retinopathy

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   retinopathy involving damage to the small blood vessels in the retina; results from chronically high blood glucose levels in people with poorly controlled diabetes

   Broaderretinopathy

Questions about diabetic retinopathy

What does diabetic retinopathy mean?

diabetic retinopathy means "retinopathy involving damage to the small blood vessels in the retina; results from chronically high blood glucose levels in people with poorly controlled diabetes".

Is diabetic retinopathy a common word?

diabetic retinopathy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.