TYPE I DIABETES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does type I diabetes mean? 

• TYPE I DIABETES (noun)
  The noun TYPE I DIABETES 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: TYPE I DIABETES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TYPE I DIABETES (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 ("type I diabetes" 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 "type I diabetes"):

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

 Context examples 

In type I diabetes, the beta cells, which are the only cells in the body that produce insulin, are destroyed by the immune system resulting in complete lack of the hormone.

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

For example, deficiency in tyrosine hydroxylase activity leads to a movement disorder similar to Parkinson's disease and may play a role in Parkinson's disease and the development of an autoimmune response against glutamate decarboxylase (GAD) may trigger the destruction of insulin-secreting cells and type I diabetes.

(Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)