diabetes insipidus
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin diabetes insipidus (“tasteless diabetes”), as opposed to diabetes mellitus (“sweet diabetes”) because of the absence of glucose in urine in the former.
Noun[edit]
diabetes insipidus (uncountable)
- A disease characterized by excretion of large amounts of severely diluted urine, which cannot be reduced when fluid intake is reduced.
- Coordinate term: diabetes mellitus
Translations[edit]
Disease
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Further reading[edit]
- diabetes insipidus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia