NON-INSULIN-DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NON-INSULIN-DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS (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 ("non-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)

 Context examples 

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)