diabetes insipidus

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What does diabetes insipidus mean?

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

Where does diabetes insipidus come from?

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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