ketoacidosis

English Thesaurus

1. acidosis with an accumulation of ketone bodies; occurs primarily in diabetes mellitus (noun.state)

hypernym	:	acidosis,
definition	:	abnormally high acidity (excess hydrogen-ion concentration) of the blood and other body tissues (noun.state)

part meronym	:	autoimmune diabetes, growth-onset diabetes, iddm, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, juvenile diabetes, juvenile-onset diabetes, ketoacidosis-prone diabetes, ketosis-prone diabetes, type i diabetes,
definition	:	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)