diabetes insipidus
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
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Further reading edit
- diabetes insipidus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia