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CHEMICAL DIABETES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does chemical diabetes mean?
• CHEMICAL DIABETES (noun)
The noun CHEMICAL DIABETES has 1 sense:
1. a mild form of diabetes mellitus in which there are no overt symptoms but there are abnormal responses to some diagnostic procedures
Familiarity information: CHEMICAL DIABETES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mild form of diabetes mellitus in which there are no overt symptoms but there are abnormal responses to some diagnostic procedures
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
chemical diabetes; latent diabetes
Hypernyms ("chemical diabetes" is a kind of...):
diabetes mellitus; DM (diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria)
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