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DIABETES MELLITUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria
Example:
when doctors say 'diabetes' they usually mean 'diabetes mellitus'
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("diabetes mellitus" is a kind of...):
diabetes (a polygenic disease characterized by abnormally high glucose levels in the blood; any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diabetes mellitus"):
autoimmune diabetes; growth-onset diabetes; IDDM; insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus; juvenile-onset diabetes; juvenile diabetes; ketoacidosis-prone diabetes; ketosis-prone diabetes; type I diabetes (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)
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 (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)
chemical diabetes; latent diabetes (a mild form of diabetes mellitus in which there are no overt symptoms but there are abnormal responses to some diagnostic procedures)
Context examples:
This gene may play a role in non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus.
(FOXA2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
It usually affects patients with immunodeficiency disorders or diabetes mellitus.
(Fungal Esophagitis, NCI Thesaurus)
DI is different from diabetes mellitus (DM), which involves insulin problems and high blood sugar.
(Diabetes Insipidus, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
A group of disorders affecting the eye in patients with diabetes mellitus.
(Diabetic Eye Disease, NCI Thesaurus)
Representative examples include diabetes mellitus, glycogen storage disease, mucopolysaccharidoses, and lactose intolerance.
(Carbohydrate Metabolism Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)
Signs and symptoms include abdominal pain, malabsorption and diabetes mellitus.
(Chronic Pancreatitis, NCI Thesaurus)
Patients develop insulin resistance, leading to diabetes mellitus.
(Berardinelli-Seip Congenital Lipodystrophy, NCI Thesaurus)
The range of endocrinopathies includes hypoparathyroidism, adrenal insufficiency, hypogonadism, type 1 diabetes mellitus and hypothyroidism.
(Autoimmune Polyendocrinopathy Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
A drug used to control the amount of sugar in the blood of patients with diabetes mellitus.
(Apidra, NCI Dictionary)
In patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, colesevelam also lowers blood glucose levels by an unknown mechanism.
(Colesevelam, NCI Thesaurus)
