diabetic coma

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   coma that can develop in inadequately treated cases of diabetes mellitus

   SynonymsKussmaul's coma

   Broadercoma

Questions about diabetic coma

What does diabetic coma mean?

diabetic coma means "coma that can develop in inadequately treated cases of diabetes mellitus".

What is another word for diabetic coma?

Close synonyms include Kussmaul's coma. 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 diabetic coma a common word?

diabetic coma 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.