diabetes insipidus
词源链
- 英语English
diabetes insipidus
词源说明
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.
释义
名词noun
- 1A disease characterized by excretion of large amounts of severely diluted urine, which cannot be reduced when fluid intake is reduced.