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KETOSIS-PRONE DIABETES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ketosis-prone diabetes mean? 

KETOSIS-PRONE DIABETES (noun)
  The noun KETOSIS-PRONE 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 diseaseplay

  Familiarity information: KETOSIS-PRONE DIABETES used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


KETOSIS-PRONE 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 ("ketosis-prone 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 "ketosis-prone diabetes"):

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


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