diabetes insipidus
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of diabetes insipidus
C18: New Latin, literally: insipid diabetes
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Furthermore, in the rare familial neurodegenerative disease diabetes insipidus, amyloid aggregation of the prohormone provasopressin in the endoplasmic reticulum causes endoplasmic reticulum stress that results in cellular death111.
From Nature ● Nov. 8, 2016
A disease called diabetes insipidus is characterized by chronic underproduction of ADH that causes chronic dehydration.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Both diabetes mellitus and diabetes insipidus produce large urine volumes, but how would other characteristics of the urine differ between the two diseases?
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Unusually large quantities of urine may point to diseases like diabetes mellitus or hypothalamic tumors that cause diabetes insipidus.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Mackenzie quotes a case from Trousseau, in which an individual afflicted with diabetes insipidus passed 32 liters of urine daily and drank enormous quantities of water.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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