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diabetes mellitus vs ketosis-prone diabetes

ketosis-prone diabetes vs diabetes mellitus

diabetes mellitus and ketosis-prone diabetes both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
diabetes mellitus Yes No No No
ketosis-prone diabetes Yes No No No
As nouns, ketosis-prone diabetes is a hyponym of diabetes mellitus; that is, ketosis-prone diabetes is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than diabetes mellitus:
  • diabetes mellitus: diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria
  • ketosis-prone 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
Other hyponyms of diabetes mellitus include autoimmune diabetes, growth-onset diabetes, IDDM, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, juvenile-onset diabetes, juvenile diabetes, ketoacidosis-prone diabetes, type I diabetes, adult-onset diabetes, adult-onset diabetes mellitus, ketoacidosis-resistant diabetes, ketoacidosis-resistant diabetes mellitus, ketosis-resistant diabetes, ketosis-resistant diabetes mellitus, mature-onset diabetes, maturity-onset diabetes, maturity-onset diabetes mellitus, NIDDM, non-insulin-dependent diabetes, non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, type II diabetes, chemical diabetes, latent diabetes.
diabetes mellitus (noun) ketosis-prone diabetes (noun)
diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria 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
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