maturity-onset diabetes

Questions about maturity-onset diabetes

What does maturity-onset diabetes mean?

maturity-onset diabetes 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 maturity-onset diabetes?

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 maturity-onset diabetes a common word?

maturity-onset 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.