diabetes mellitus is a noun meaning "diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria". It carries one recorded sense.
diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria
“when doctors say `diabetes' they usually mean `diabetes mellitus'”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for diabetes mellitus come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.