insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus

Questions about insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus

What does insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus mean?

insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus 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 insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus?

Close synonyms include type I diabetes, IDDM, 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 insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus a common word?

insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus 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.