TYPE II DIABETES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does type II diabetes mean? 

• TYPE II DIABETES (noun)
  The noun TYPE II DIABETES has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: TYPE II DIABETES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TYPE II DIABETES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

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

Hypernyms ("type II diabetes" is a kind of...):

diabetes mellitus; DM (diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria)

 Context examples 

This gene is involved in the regulation of gene expression and plays a role in the development of carcinomas of the lung and nasopharynx as well as rhabdomyosarcoma and type II diabetes.

(MIR29C Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Amyloidogenesis is the formation or growth of amyloid structures, implicated in many human diseases including Alzheimer s disease (AD), Parkinson s disease (PD), type II diabetes, and spongiform encephalopathies.

(Amyloidogenesis, NCI Thesaurus)

In type II diabetes—the most common form of the disease—the cells of the body become inefficient at responding to insulin and as a consequence, glucose in circulation can become dangerously high (hyperglycemia) while the pancreas cannot produce enough insulin to compensate.

(Researchers Develop Insulin-Producing Cells Activated by Light for Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The insulin resistance of type II diabetes appears to be caused in part by the presence of high levels of lipids in cells such as skeletal muscle where this would not normally be found.

(Insulin Resistance Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)