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GROWTH-ONSET DIABETES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does growth-onset diabetes mean?
• GROWTH-ONSET DIABETES (noun)
The noun GROWTH-ONSET DIABETES has 1 sense:
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
Familiarity information: GROWTH-ONSET DIABETES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GROWTH-ONSET DIABETES (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
autoimmune diabetes; growth-onset diabetes; IDDM; insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus; juvenile-onset diabetes; juvenile diabetes; ketoacidosis-prone diabetes; ketosis-prone diabetes; type I diabetes
Hypernyms ("growth-onset diabetes" is a kind of...):
diabetes mellitus; DM (diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria)
autoimmune disease; autoimmune disorder (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)
Meronyms (parts of "growth-onset diabetes"):
diabetic acidosis; ketoacidosis (acidosis with an accumulation of ketone bodies; occurs primarily in diabetes mellitus)
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