English Explanatory Dictionary

diabetes insipidus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A disease characterized by excretion of large amounts of severely diluted urine, which cannot be reduced when fluid intake is reduced.

Word forms

diabetes insipidus

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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