diabetes insipidus en · NOUN
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.
Meanings
- (uncountable) 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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Translations (11)
gl diabete insípida (Disease) · es diabetes insípida (Disease) · pl moczówka prosta (Disease) · az dadsız diabet (Disease) · fr diabète insipide (Disease) · it diabete insipido (Disease) · th เบาจืด (Disease) · id diabetes insipidus (Disease) · fi vesitystauti (Disease) · ru неса́харный диабе́т (Disease) · el άποιος διαβήτης (Disease)