Definition: 'Diabetic Lipemia'
diabetic lipemia
Type: Term
Definitions:
1. development of lactescent plasma on ingestion of dietary lipids; a rare manifestation of uncontrolled diabetes mellitus caused by defective metabolism of dietary lipids and abolished by the administration of insulin.
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