Noun: diabetic acidosis
- Acidosis with an accumulation of ketone bodies; occurs primarily in diabetes mellitus
"The patient was rushed to the emergency room with symptoms of diabetic acidosis";
- ketoacidosis
Type of: acidosis
Part of: autoimmune diabetes, growth-onset diabetes, IDDM, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, juvenile diabetes, juvenile-onset diabetes, ketoacidosis-prone diabetes, ketosis-prone diabetes, type I diabetes