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diabetic coma

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Noun1.diabetic coma - coma that can develop in inadequately treated cases of diabetes mellitus
Kussmaul's coma
coma, comatoseness - a state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness; usually the result of disease or injury
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The preparation was fully warranted, since the boy's father, 30-year-old Aaron Farris, was diabetic and therefore subject to bouts of unconsciousness, which can be caused either by diabetic coma (hyperglycemia) or insulin shock (hypoglycemia).
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Doctors feared that Pemberton was at risk for falling into a diabetic coma.
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11 in Cairo after entering a diabetic coma, according to Egypt's Middle East News Agency.
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