adult education | a course (via lectures or correspondence) for adults who are not otherwise engaged in formal study |
attack onslaught onset onrush | (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons), the attack began at dawn |
adult | any mature animal |
adult body | the body of an adult human being |
adult female body woman's body | the body of an adult woman |
adult male body man's body | the body of an adult man |
permanent tooth adult tooth | any of the teeth that replace the deciduous teeth of early childhood and (with luck) can last until old age |
onset oncoming | the beginning or early stages, the onset of pneumonia |
adult grownup | a fully developed person from maturity onward |
man adult male | an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman), there were two women and six men on the bus |
woman adult female | an adult female person (as opposed to a man), the woman kept house while the man hunted |
adult intelligence | the average IQ of the adults in a given population |
adult respiratory distress syndrome ARDS wet lung white lung | acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales, inflammation of the lungs which become stiff and fibrous and cannot exchange oxygen, occurs among persons exposed to irritants such as corrosive chemical vapors or ammonia or chlorine etc. |
diabetes | a polygenic disease characterized by abnormally high glucose levels in the blood, any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst |
diabetes mellitus DM | diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria, when doctors say `diabetes' they usually mean `diabetes mellitus' |
type I diabetes insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus IDDM juvenile-onset diabetes juvenile diabetes growth-onset diabetes ketosis-prone diabetes ketoacidosis-prone diabetes autoimmune diabetes | 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 |
d type II diabetes non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus NIDDM non-insulin-dependent diabetes ketosisesistant diabetes mellitus ketosisesistant diabetes ketoacidosisesistant diabetes mellitus ketoacidosisesistant diabetes adult-onset diabetes mellitus adult-onset diabetes maturity-onset diabetes mellitus maturity-onset diabetes mature-onset diabetes | 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 |
nephrogenic diabetes insipidus | diabetes insipidus caused by a failure of the kidney to respond to normal levels of vasopressin |
diabetes insipidus | a rare form of diabetes resulting from a deficiency of vasopressin (the pituitary hormone that regulates the kidneys), characterized by the chronic excretion of large amounts of pale dilute urine which results in dehydration and extreme thirst |
latent diabetes chemical diabetes | a mild form of diabetes mellitus in which there are no overt symptoms but there are abnormal responses to some diagnostic procedures |
hemochromatosis iron-storage disease iron overload bronzed diabetes | pathology in which iron accumulates in the tissues, characterized by bronzed skin and enlarged liver and diabetes mellitus and abnormalities of the pancreas and the joints |
adult big full-grown fully grown grown grownup | (of animals) fully developed, an adult animal, a grown woman |
pornographic adult | designed to arouse lust, pornographic films and magazines, adult movies |