iddm

Other forms of iddm

plural

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Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about iddm

What does iddm mean?

iddm 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".

How many syllables are in iddm?

iddm has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for iddm?

Close synonyms include type I diabetes, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, juvenile-onset diabetes, juvenile diabetes, growth-onset 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 iddm a common word?

iddm is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.