The difference between Diabetes and Juvenile diabetes
When used as nouns, diabetes means a group of metabolic diseases whereby a person (or other animal) has high blood sugar due to an inability to produce, or inability to metabolize, sufficient quantities of the hormone insulin, whereas juvenile diabetes means the disease whose main symptom is that the body does not produce insulin.
check bellow for the other definitions of Diabetes and Juvenile diabetes
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Diabetes as a noun:
A group of metabolic diseases whereby a person (or other animal) has high blood sugar due to an inability to produce, or inability to metabolize, sufficient quantities of the hormone insulin.
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Diabetes as a noun:
Diabetes insipidus, a condition characterized by excessive thirst and excretion of large amounts of severely diluted urine.
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Juvenile diabetes as a noun:
The disease whose main symptom is that the body does not produce insulin.