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noun
A disease characterized by excretion of large amounts of severely diluted urine, which cannot be reduced when fluid intake is reduced.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: diabetes
Narrower terms: nephrogenic diabetes insipidus
History
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.
Across languages
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