adult onset
Appearing in maturity
Adult onset describes a condition, disease, or trait that first appears in adulthood rather than childhood.
The term appears most often in medical contexts: adult-onset diabetes, adult-onset asthma.
It distinguishes later-developing conditions from those present from birth or early life.
Informally, it can describe any characteristic acquired later: adult-onset lactose intolerance, adult-onset interest in jazz.
- middle ageLife's middle decades
- diabetesMetabolic disorder affecting glucose
- diagnosisIdentification of illness
- warning signsIndicators of impending danger
- midlifeHalfway through adulthood
symptoms · health screening · chronic · disease · developed · acquired · manifesting · progression · degenerative · insulin · blood sugar · metabolic · condition · threshold · type 2 diabetes · forty · emerging · gradual
- gangliosidoses
adult onsetcongenital
Existing from birth
early onset · inborn · perinatal · birth defect · hereditary