Definition of dm Dm
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What does dm mean?
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| dm - diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria; "when doctors say `diabetes' they usually mean `diabetes mellitus'" | ||
| diabetes mellitus, DM | ||
| diabetes a polygenic disease characterized by abnormally high glucose levels in the blood; any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst | ||
| autoimmune diabetes, growth-onset diabetes, iddm, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, juvenile-onset diabetes, juvenile diabetes, ketoacidosis-prone diabetes, ketosis-prone diabetes, type i diabetes 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 | ||
| adult-onset diabetes, non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent diabetes, niddm, maturity-onset diabetes mellitus, maturity-onset diabetes, mature-onset diabetes, ketosis-resistant diabetes mellitus, ketosis-resistant diabetes, ketoacidosis-resistant diabetes mellitus, ketoacidosis-resistant diabetes, adult-onset diabetes mellitus, type ii diabetes mild form of diabetes mellitus that develops gradually in adults; can be precipitated by obesity or severe stress or menopause or other factors; can usually be controlled by diet and hypoglycemic agents without injections of insulin | ||
| dm - a metric unit of length equal to one tenth of a meter | ||
| decimeter, decimetre | ||
| metric linear unit a linear unit of distance in metric terms | ||
| metre, meter, m any of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity | ||
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Part of speech
🔤- dm, noun, singular of dms.
