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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
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- noun The
disease whose mainsymptom is that the body does notproduce insulin .
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- 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
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