DM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does DM mean? 

• DM (noun)
  The noun DM has 2 senses:

1. diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria

2. a metric unit of length equal to one tenth of a meter

  Familiarity information: DM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

diabetes mellitus; DM

Context example:

when doctors say 'diabetes' they usually mean 'diabetes mellitus'

Hypernyms ("DM" is a kind of...):

diabetes (a polygenic disease characterized by abnormally high glucose levels in the blood; any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "DM"):

autoimmune diabetes; growth-onset diabetes; IDDM; insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus; juvenile-onset diabetes; juvenile diabetes; ketoacidosis-prone diabetes; ketosis-prone diabetes; type I diabetes (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)

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 diabetes mellitus; NIDDM; non-insulin-dependent diabetes; non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus; type II diabetes (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)

chemical diabetes; latent diabetes (a mild form of diabetes mellitus in which there are no overt symptoms but there are abnormal responses to some diagnostic procedures)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A metric unit of length equal to one tenth of a meter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

decimeter; decimetre; dm

Hypernyms ("dm" is a kind of...):

metric linear unit (a linear unit of distance in metric terms)

Meronyms (parts of "dm"):

centimeter; centimetre; cm (a metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter)

Holonyms ("dm" is a part of...):

m; meter; metre (the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards))

 Context examples 

It's much less common than DM.

(Diabetes Insipidus, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Also called: Sugar Diabetes, Diabetes mellitus, DM

(Diabetes, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

The domains included are DM, CO, SE and SV.

(CDISC Special Purpose Class, NCI Thesaurus)

DI is different from diabetes mellitus (DM), which involves insulin problems and high blood sugar.

(Diabetes Insipidus, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)