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CHEMICAL DIABETES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mild form of diabetes mellitus in which there are no overt symptoms but there are abnormal responses to some diagnostic procedures
Synonyms:
chemical diabetes; latent diabetes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("chemical diabetes" is a kind of...):
diabetes mellitus; DM (diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria)