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

1 sense of latent diabetes

Sense 1
latent diabetes, chemical diabetes -- (a mild form of diabetes mellitus in which there are no overt symptoms but there are abnormal responses to some diagnostic procedures)
       => 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'")