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Definition of Diabetes insipidus

1. Noun. 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.

Definition of Diabetes insipidus

1. Noun. A disease characterized by excretion of large amount of severely diluted urine, which cannot be reduced when fluid intake is reduced. It is generally related to a tumor or insult to the pituitary gland, where the hormonal signals the pituitary gives to the kidneys break down, and the kidneys do not conserve water, but express all water as urine. This is a rather rare disease. ¹

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Medical Definition of Diabetes insipidus

1. Rare form of diabetes in which the kidney tubules do not reabsorb sufficient water. This can be because (a) either the renal tubules have defective receptors for antidiuretic hormone (ADH, vasopressin) or (b) a class of aquaporin water channel in the collecting duct is defective or (c) there is inadequate ADH production by the pituitary, leading to the excessive production of dilute urine. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Diabetes insipidus

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1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"the frequency, in human cases of diabetes insipidus, of symptoms pointing to ... In a recent case, diabetes insipidus followed a carcinoma-metastasis in the ..."

2. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1921)
"diabetes insipidus For the past two years diabetes insipidus has greatly interested me and two of ... diabetes insipidus was described by Frank in 1794 as ..."

3. Diet in Health and Disease by Julius Friedenwald, John Ruhräh (1907)
"Conclusions a posteriori on abnormal metabolic processes in diabetes insipidus must not be drawn from statements such as these, which abound in earlier ..."

4. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler, Thomas McCrae (1916)
"Ш. diabetes insipidus Definition.—A chronic affection characterized by the passage of large quantities of normal urine of low specific gravity. ..."

5. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1905)
"The Relations Between diabetes insipidus and Diabetes Mellitus. ... Clinically, we find that diabetes insipidus, in general, is a disease of younger persons ..."

6. A Text-book of the Diseases of the Small Domestic Animals by Oscar Victor Brumley (1921)
"diabetes insipidus. Definition.—A chronic disease characterized by the ... There should be a distinction made between diabetes insipidus and polyuria. ..."

7. A Text-book of Pathology by William George MacCallum, Harry Gideon Wells (1907)
"CHRONIC POLYURIA "diabetes insipidus," which in some instances terminates in diabetes mellitus, but most generally seems to be quite distinct from true ..."

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