INSULIN-DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS

 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)

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 diabetes; juvenile-onset 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)