1. Acidosis with an accumulation of ketone bodies; occurs primarily in diabetes mellitus
   "The patient was rushed to the ER with symptoms of diabetic ketoacidosis";
   - diabetic acidosis

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

Encyclopedia: Ketoacidosis