autoimmune diabetes

Noun

• 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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  type I diabetes , insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus , IDDM , juvenile-onset diabetes , juvenile diabetes , growth-onset diabetes , ketosis-prone diabetes , ketoacidosis-prone diabetes