Term: type ii 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
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Candidate hypernym: approach: a close approximation → 0
Candidate hypernym: concurrence: a state of cooperation → 0
Candidate hypernym: flex: the act of flexing → 0
Candidate hypernym: stocking filler: a small Christmas present included in the Christmas stocking → 0
Candidate hypernym: fixing agent: a chemical compound that sets or fixes something (as a dye or a photographic image) → 0
Candidate hypernym: department of health education and welfare: a former executive department of the United States government; created in 1953 and divided in 1979 → 0
Candidate hypernym: ophiodontidae: fishes closely related to greenlings → 0
Candidate hypernym: presbyope: a person with presbyopia; someone who is farsighted resulting from the progressive loss with aging of the elasticity of the crystalline lens → 0
Candidate hypernym: equal-area projection: a map projection in which quadrilaterals formed by meridians and parallels have an area on the map proportional to their area on the globe → 0