autoimmune diabetes

Questions about autoimmune diabetes

What does autoimmune diabetes mean?

autoimmune diabetes means "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".

What is another word for autoimmune diabetes?

Close synonyms include type I diabetes, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, IDDM, juvenile-onset diabetes, juvenile diabetes. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is autoimmune diabetes a common word?

autoimmune diabetes is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.