ketosis-prone diabetes
- noun
- /kiˈtoʊsɪs proʊn daɪəˈbiːtɪs/
- Specialized
:
diabetes propensa a la cetosis
- The doctor diagnosed her with ketosis-prone diabetes after she experienced repeated episodes of ketoacidosis.
Examples
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People with ketosis-prone diabetes often require both diet and insulin injections to manage their condition.
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Many patients with ketosis-prone diabetes need to monitor their blood sugar levels closely.
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Early detection of ketosis-prone diabetes is critical to prevent severe metabolic complications.
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Is ketosis-prone diabetes more common in children?
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Early detection of ketosis-prone diabetes is critical to prevent severe metabolic complications.
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The doctor diagnosed her with ketosis-prone diabetes after she experienced repeated episodes of ketoacidosis.
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People with ketosis-prone diabetes often require both diet and insulin injections to manage their condition.
Synonyms
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3.2
A long term illness in young people whose body cannot make insulin so they need injections
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A long-term condition in which the body makes little or no insulin and people must take insulin injections
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A disease in children and young people where the body cannot control blood sugar and needs insulin
A type of diabetes that often causes dangerous ketones in the blood and needs insulin and diet control
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
How Prone
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Surface Forms
Morphology
ketosis-prone + diabetes
The phrase is compositionally built: 'ketosis-prone' means 'likely to develop ketosis' and combined with 'diabetes' yields a type of diabetes that tends to produce ketosis/ketoacidosis. This follows a straightforward adjective+noun pattern and is predictable from the parts (though it uses a medical term 'ketosis' that learners may not know).
Etymology
Ketosis-prone diabetes gets its name from the parts ketosis, when the body makes chemicals called 'ketones', and prone, which means 'likely to happen'. Because people with this kind of diabetes often make many ketones, they are 'likely' to have dangerous 'ketone build-up', so they usually need both diet and insulin to control it.