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Definition of Diabetes mellitus
1. Noun. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria. "When doctors say `diabetes' they usually mean `diabetes mellitus'"
Generic synonyms: Diabetes
Specialized synonyms: Autoimmune Diabetes, Growth-onset Diabetes, Iddm, Insulin-dependent Diabetes Mellitus, Juvenile Diabetes, Juvenile-onset Diabetes, Ketoacidosis-prone Diabetes, Ketosis-prone Diabetes, Type I Diabetes, 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, Chemical Diabetes, Latent Diabetes
Definition of Diabetes mellitus
1. Noun. A medical disorder characterized by varying or persistent hyperglycemia, especially after eating. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Diabetes mellitus
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Diabetes Mellitus
Literary usage of Diabetes mellitus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"diabetes mellitus 1. Introduction (a) Conception of the Malady diabetes mellitus
is a disturbance of metabolism in which d-gluco>e cannot be utilized in the ..."
2. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1921)
"TYPES OF diabetes mellitus RUSSELL M. WILDER MY purpose this afternoon is to
speak about the existence of separable types of diabetes mellitus, ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"DIABETES mellitus was known to Celsus and Aretaeus in the first century AD, ...
diabetes mellitus and glycosuria are not interchangeable terms. ..."
4. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1905)
"Futcher says a number of cases; of diabetes insipidus have passed over into
diabetes mellitus and vice versa, but gives no reference to them. ..."
5. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"... 24 diabetes mellitus Leona V. Miller, MD DISEASE DESCRIPTION diabetes mellitus,
a chronic disorder of metabolism that affects all body systems, ..."
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