Designating a disease, especially a non-insulin-dependent form of diabetes mellitus, which typically develops in adult life as opposed to childhood; (of a person) affected with a disease of this kind.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in American Journal of the Medical Sciences.
Definition of maturity-onset in US English:
maturity-onset
adjective
Medicine
Designating a disease, especially a non-insulin-dependent form of diabetes mellitus, which typically develops in adult life as opposed to childhood; (of a person) affected with a disease of this kind.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in American Journal of the Medical Sciences.