Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun diabetes_mellitus

1 sense of diabetes mellitus

Sense 1
diabetes mellitus, 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 -- (a polygenic disease characterized by abnormally high glucose levels in the blood; any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst)