diabetes insipidus
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diabetes insipidus
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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
- A disease characterized by excretion of large amounts of severely diluted urine, which cannot be reduced when fluid intake is reduced.
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noun Disease
| Español | diabetes insípida |
|---|---|
| Français | diabète insipide |
| Italiano | diabete insipido |
| Ελληνικά | άποιος διαβήτης ápoios diavítis |
| Русский | неса́харный диабе́т nesáxarnyj diabét |
Talk about this word "diabetes insipidus." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/diabetes%20insipidus. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. diabetes insipidus. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/diabetes%20insipidus "diabetes insipidus." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/diabetes%20insipidus.Cite this
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title = {diabetes insipidus},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/diabetes%20insipidus},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
