INSULIN-DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus mean? 

• INSULIN-DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS (noun)
  The noun INSULIN-DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS 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: INSULIN-DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSULIN-DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS (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 ("insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus" 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 "insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus"):

diabetic acidosis; ketoacidosis (acidosis with an accumulation of ketone bodies; occurs primarily in diabetes mellitus)

 Context examples 

Certain HLA-DQ protein variants are associated with susceptibility to insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and several autoimmune diseases.

(HLA-DQ Antigen, NCI Thesaurus)

Variant alleles generated from mutations in the gene, have been associated with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, Graves disease, Hashimoto thyroiditis, celiac disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, thyroid-associated orbitopathy, and other autoimmune diseases.

(CTLA4 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This mouse model is prone to the development of fatty lesions in the aorta similar to atheromatous plaque in humans, as well as hyperglycemia, hyperinsulinemia, hypercholesterolemia and non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in response to a high fat diet.

(C57BL/6 Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)