NIDDM

  

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NIDDM

Definition: NIDDM

NIDDM

Noun

1. 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.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: NIDDM

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField

NIDDM

EnglishNon-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitisMedicine

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: NIDDM

Synonyms: adult-onset diabetes (n), adult-onset diabetes mellitus (n), ketoacidosis-resistant diabetes (n), ketoacidosis-resistant diabetes mellitus (n), ketosis-resistant diabetes (n), ketosis-resistant diabetes mellitus (n), maturity-onset diabetes (n), maturity-onset diabetes mellitus (n), non-insulin-dependent diabetes (n), non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (n). (additional references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: NIDDM

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

There is strong evidence that NIDDM is genetically determined. (references)

The risk-benefit ratio of exercise in NIDDM remains to be defined. (references)

In the past, individuals with NIDDM have been advised to avoid sucrose. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: NIDDM

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

niddm

19
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: NIDDM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-i-m-n"

-1 letter: mind.

-2 letters: did, dim, din, mid, nim.

-3 letters: id, in, mi.

 Words containing the letters "d-d-i-m-n"
 

+1 letter: midden, minded.

 

+2 letters: diamond, madding, middens, midland, mudding, mueddin.

 

+3 letters: bondmaid, dandyism, diamonds, didynamy, handmaid, impended, meddling, middling, midlands, mildened, muddling, muddying, mueddins, reminded, undimmed.

 

+4 letters: bondmaids, damnified, dandyisms, demanding, demantoid, demimonde, demonised, demonized, diademing, diamonded, dislimned, dominated, dynamited, embedding, handmaids, imbedding, impounded, maddening, marinaded, medicined, middleman, middlemen, middlings, misadding, mistended, muddiness, unadmired, unimpeded.

 

+5 letters: admonished, bemuddling, deaminated, demantoids, demimondes, dendriform, determined, diamonding, didynamies, diminished, diminuendo, discommend, dismantled, dismounted, domineered, embeddings, endodermis, epidendrum, goddamming, goddamning, handmaiden, imboldened, incommoded, maidenhead, maidenhood, manifolded, middlingly, mindedness, misbranded, misdefined, mishandled, missounded, modernised, modernized, pedimented, ramrodding, randomized, rereminded, sedimented, unadmitted, undermined, undismayed, unmediated, unmodified, windmilled.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: NIDDM


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 49 44 44 4D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.    ..    -..    -..    --

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01001001 01000100 01000100 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#73 &#68 &#68 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0049 0044 0044 004D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4843383847

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Abbreviations
6. Acronyms
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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