juvenile diabetes

English

Noun

juvenile diabetes (uncountable)

1. A disease in which the main symptom is the body's lack of production of insulin.

Usage notes

• This term is increasingly rare, in favor of the type 1 synonyms listed below.

Synonyms

• type 1 diabetes mellitus, diabetes mellitus type 1, type 1 DM
• type 1 diabetes, type I diabetes
• insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, IDDM
• juvenile-onset diabetes
• juvenile-onset diabetes mellitus

Hypernyms

• diabetes
• diabetes mellitus

Translations

type 1 diabetes — see type 1 diabetes

Further reading

• diabetes mellitus type 1 on Wikipedia.Wikipedia