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IDDM

Definition: IDDM

IDDM

Noun

1. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset; characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis; diet and insulin injections are required to control the disease.

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

"IDDM" is a common misspelling or typo for: add, did, dim, idem.

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: IDDM

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

IDDM

DanishLabil diabetesMedicine

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

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Synonyms: IDDM

Synonyms: autoimmune diabetes (n), growth-onset diabetes (n), insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (n), juvenile diabetes (n), juvenile-onset diabetes (n), ketoacidosis-prone diabetes (n), ketosis-prone diabetes (n). (additional references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: IDDM

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Young people with IDDM have no more tooth decay than do nondiabetic children. (references)

Children with IDDM (insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus) are also at risk for gum problems. (references)

Although the DCCT included only patients with IDDM, researchers believe that people with noninsulin-dependent diabetes would also benefit from maintaining lower levels of blood glucose. (references)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: IDDM

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

iddm

17
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: IDDM

Language Translations for "iddm"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

iddmay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: IDDM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: did, dim, mid.

-2 letters: id, mi.

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

+1 letter: middy.

 

+2 letters: desmid, diadem, dimmed, dirdum, mediad, midday, midden, middle, minded, misadd, misdid.

 

+3 letters: admired, admixed, dadaism, delimed, demigod, demised, dermoid, desmids, desmoid, diadems, diamide, diamond, dimpled, dirdums, dodoism, dummied, faddism, impeded, madding, maddish, middays, middens, middies, middled, middler, middles, midland, misadds, misdeed, muddied, muddier, muddies, muddily, mudding, mueddin.

 

+4 letters: admitted, bedimmed, bondmaid, dadaisms, dandyism, demigods, demitted, dermoids, desmoids, diademed, diamides, diamonds, didymium, didymous, didynamy, disarmed, dismayed, dodoisms, druidism, embodied, faddisms, handmaid, imbedded, imbodied, impended, imploded, lambdoid, maidhood, meddling, mediated, medicaid, medusoid, middlers, middling, midfield, midlands, midsized, midwifed, midwived, mildened, mildewed, misadded, miscoded, misdated, misdeeds, modified, muddiest, muddling, muddying, mudslide, mueddins, remedied, reminded, siddurim, sodamide, undimmed, zaddikim.

 

+5 letters: bedimpled, birdlimed, bondmaids, coadmired, dairymaid, damnified, dandyisms, decimated, declaimed, delimited, demanding, demantoid, demerited, demimonde, demiworld, demonised, demonized, dermestid, diademing, diagramed, diamonded, didymiums, dimerized, dimwitted, diplomaed, disembody, dishelmed, dislimned, dismasted, dismissed, displumed, domiciled, dominated, dramedies, druidisms, duodecimo, dynamited, embedding, handmaids, imbedding, impleaded, impledged, impounded, kaddishim, kiddushim, maddening, maidhoods, marinaded, medicaids, medicated, medicined, meditated, medusoids, melodised, melodized, middleman, middlemen, middlings, middorsal, midfields, misadding, misdeemed, misdialed, misedited, misgraded, misguided, misjudged, mislodged, mistended, misworded, muddiness, mudslides, pyramided, semidomed, sodamides, sodomized, tzaddikim, unadmired, unimpeded.

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

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Alternative Orthography: IDDM


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

49 44 44 4D

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

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

=

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)

01001001 01000100 01000100 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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)

43383847

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INDEX

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


  

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