ketoacidosis-resistant diabetes mellitus

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   mild form of diabetes mellitus that develops gradually in adults; can be precipitated by obesity or severe stress or menopause or other factors; can usually be controlled by diet and hypoglycemic agents without injections of insulin

   Synonymstype II diabetesnon-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitusNIDDMnon-insulin-dependent diabetesketosis-resistant diabetes mellitusketosis-resistant diabetesketoacidosis-resistant diabetesadult-onset diabetes mellitusadult-onset diabetesmaturity-onset diabetes mellitusmaturity-onset diabetesmature-onset diabetes

   Broaderdiabetes mellitus

Questions about ketoacidosis-resistant diabetes mellitus

What does ketoacidosis-resistant diabetes mellitus mean?

ketoacidosis-resistant diabetes mellitus means "mild form of diabetes mellitus that develops gradually in adults; can be precipitated by obesity or severe stress or menopause or other factors; can usually be controlled by diet and hypoglycemic agents without injections of insulin".

What is another word for ketoacidosis-resistant diabetes mellitus?

Close synonyms include type II diabetes, non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, NIDDM, non-insulin-dependent diabetes, ketosis-resistant diabetes mellitus. 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 ketoacidosis-resistant diabetes mellitus a common word?

ketoacidosis-resistant 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.