Juvenile Onset Diabetes

Noun
1. 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
(synonym) type I diabetes, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, IDDM, juvenile diabetes, growth-onset diabetes, ketosis-prone diabetes, ketoacidosis-prone diabetes, autoimmune diabetes
(hypernym) diabetes mellitus, DM
(part-meronym) ketoacidosis, diabetic acidosis

Diabetes mellitus that stems from the immune system’s destruction of beta cells, usually develops in childhood or adolescence, and is usually treated with daily insulin dosing.