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IDDM
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I. (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
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("IDDM" 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 "IDDM"):
diabetic acidosis; ketoacidosis (acidosis with an accumulation of ketone bodies; occurs primarily in diabetes mellitus)
