Etymology

diabetes insipidus

Today it means: A disease characterized by excretion of large amounts of severely diluted urine, which cannot be reduced when fluid intake is reduced. Full definition →

Latin diabetes insipidus
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  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromdiabetes insipidus“tasteless diabetes”
  2. English todaydiabetes insipidus

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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