latent diabetes

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   a mild form of diabetes mellitus in which there are no overt symptoms but there are abnormal responses to some diagnostic procedures

   Synonymschemical diabetes

   Broaderdiabetes mellitus

Questions about latent diabetes

What does latent diabetes mean?

latent diabetes means "a mild form of diabetes mellitus in which there are no overt symptoms but there are abnormal responses to some diagnostic procedures".

What is another word for latent diabetes?

Close synonyms include chemical 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 latent diabetes a common word?

latent diabetes 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.