diabetes insipidus

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   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

   Broaderdiabetes

   Narrowernephrogenic diabetes insipidus

Questions about diabetes insipidus

What does diabetes insipidus mean?

diabetes insipidus means "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".

Is diabetes insipidus a common word?

diabetes insipidus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.