iddm
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1. severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset; characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis; diet and insulin injections are required to control the disease (noun.state)
| hypernym | : | diabetes mellitus, dm, |
| definition | : | diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria (noun.state) |
| hypernym | : | autoimmune disease, autoimmune disorder, |
| definition | : | any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues (noun.state) |
| part holonym | : | diabetic acidosis, ketoacidosis, |
| definition | : | acidosis with an accumulation of ketone bodies; occurs primarily in diabetes mellitus (noun.state) |
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