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juvenile diabetes

noun · 1 sense

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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type i diabetes, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, iddm, juvenile-onset diabetes, growth-onset diabetes, ketosis-prone diabetes, ketoacidosis-prone diabetes, autoimmune diabetes

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