juvenile-onset diabetes
- noun
- /ˈdʒuːvənɪl ˈɒnsɛt daɪəˈbiːtiːz/
- Specialized
- Regular insulin injections are necessary to manage juvenile-onset diabetes effectively.
Examples
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Many families learn to recognize the early symptoms of juvenile-onset diabetes in children.
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Doctors diagnosed her with juvenile-onset diabetes when she was only eight years old.
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Many children with juvenile-onset diabetes require insulin daily.
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Is juvenile-onset diabetes common among teenagers?
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Children diagnosed with juvenile-onset diabetes often require insulin treatment to manage their condition.
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Excessive thirst and frequent urination are common symptoms of juvenile-onset diabetes in young people.
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Due to juvenile-onset diabetes, many teenagers learn to monitor their blood sugar levels daily.
Synonyms
A long term illness in young people whose body cannot make insulin so they need injections
A long-term condition in which the body makes little or no insulin and people must take insulin injections
A long-term disease in which the body cannot make insulin and needs injections to control blood sugar
A type of diabetes when the body's immune system destroys insulin-producing cells, so people need insulin
A form of diabetes that needs regular insulin injections
Surface Forms
Morphology
juvenile-onset + diabetes
The phrase is compositionally built from 'juvenile' (young) + 'onset' (beginning), so its meaning—diabetes that begins in childhood or youth—is directly derivable from the parts. This medical compound follows standard English noun-modifier composition and has clear equivalents in other languages, so a learner who knows the constituents will understand it.
Etymology
Juvenile-onset diabetes comes from the parts juvenile, meaning 'a young person', onset, meaning 'the start', and diabetes, meaning 'the sugar disease'. So the name shows it is 'diabetes' that begins in childhood, which is why it means the form of diabetes that starts early and often needs insulin.