ketoacidosis-prone diabetes
- noun
- /ˌkiːtoʊˌæsɪˈdoʊsɪs proʊn daɪəˈbiːtɪs/
- Specialized
- After being diagnosed with ketoacidosis-prone diabetes, she began daily insulin injections to control her blood sugar.
Examples
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Children with ketoacidosis-prone diabetes often present with weight loss and increased thirst.
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Managing ketoacidosis-prone diabetes requires careful attention to both diet and medication.
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Children with ketoacidosis-prone diabetes need careful monitoring.
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Is ketoacidosis-prone diabetes common in young adults?
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After being diagnosed with ketoacidosis-prone diabetes, she began daily insulin injections to control her blood sugar.
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Children with ketoacidosis-prone diabetes often present with weight loss and increased thirst.
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Managing ketoacidosis-prone diabetes requires careful attention to both diet and insulin doses.
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 disease in children and young people where the body cannot control blood sugar and needs insulin
A condition causing high blood sugar and dangerous acid build-up, needing diet and insulin
A long-term disease in which the body cannot make insulin and needs injections to control blood sugar
A form of diabetes that needs regular insulin injections
A type of diabetes when the body's immune system destroys insulin-producing cells, so people need insulin
Antonyms
- Specialized
A mild diabetes in adults controlled by diet and pills rather than insulin
How Prone
- Specialized
- Specialized
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
ketoacidosis-prone + diabetes
This is a specialized medical compound built from the technical term 'ketoacidosis' plus 'prone' and 'diabetes.' An average B1 learner who knows 'diabetes' (and perhaps 'prone') will not be able to infer the specific clinical meaning because 'ketoacidosis' is a specialist term and the phrase requires domain knowledge rather than straightforward compositional interpretation.
Etymology
Ketoacidosis-prone diabetes names a type of diabetes that is prone ('likely') to develop ketoacidosis ('a build-up of acids called ketones'). So, the phrase means a form of diabetes that often causes this acid build-up and needs careful diet and insulin to control.