diabetes mellitus
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1. diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria (noun.state)
hypernym | : | diabetes, |
definition | : | a polygenic disease characterized by abnormally high glucose levels in the blood; any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst (noun.state) |
hyponym | : | 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) |
hyponym | : | adult-onset diabetes, adult-onset diabetes mellitus, ketoacidosis-resistant diabetes, ketoacidosis-resistant diabetes mellitus, ketosis-resistant diabetes, ketosis-resistant diabetes mellitus, mature-onset diabetes, maturity-onset diabetes, maturity-onset diabete, |
definition | : | mild form of diabetes mellitus that develops gradually in adults; can be precipitated by obesity or severe stress or menopause or other factors; can usually be controlled by diet and hypoglycemic agents without injections of insulin (noun.state) |
hyponym | : | chemical diabetes, latent diabetes, |
definition | : | a mild form of diabetes mellitus in which there are no overt symptoms but there are abnormal responses to some diagnostic procedures (noun.state) |
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