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Diabetes insipidus

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Noun
  1. 1
    A disease characterized by excretion of large amounts of severely diluted urine, which cannot be reduced when fluid intake is reduced. uncountable
  2. 2
    a rare form of diabetes resulting from a deficiency of vasopressin (the pituitary hormone that regulates the kidneys); characterized by the chronic excretion of large amounts of pale dilute urine which results in dehydration and extreme thirst wordnet

Etymology

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.

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