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- mild form of diabetes mellitus that develops gradually in adults; can be precipitated by obesity or severe stress or menopause or other factors; can usually be controlled by diet and hypoglycemic agents without injections of insulin
How To Use maturity-onset diabetes In A Sentence
- Dr.I. Arthur Mirsky had hypothesized that maturity-onset diabetes might not be due to a deficiency of insulin secretion but rather to abnormally rapid degradation of insulin by hepatic insulinase (1). Nobel Lecture Radioimmunoassay: A Probe For Fine Structure Of Biologic Systems
