ketoacidosis-prone diabetes

Noun
  1. 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 (synset 114141905)
    is a type of:
    • diabetes mellitus, dm - diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria
    • autoimmune disease, autoimmune disorder - any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues
    has: diabetic acidosis, ketoacidosis - acidosis with an accumulation of ketone bodies; occurs primarily in diabetes mellitus
    same as: autoimmune diabetes, growth-onset diabetes, iddm, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, juvenile diabetes, juvenile-onset diabetes, ketosis-prone diabetes, type i diabetes

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