juvenile diabetes

Noun juvenile diabetes has 1 sense

• juvenile diabetes(n = noun.state) autoimmune diabetes, growth-onset diabetes, iddm, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, juvenile-onset diabetes, ketoacidosis-prone diabetes, ketosis-prone diabetes, type i diabetes - 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;
has parts: diabetic acidosis, ketoacidosis
is a kind of diabetes mellitus, dm, autoimmune disease, autoimmune disorder