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Definition of Polydipsia
1. Noun. Excessive thirst (as in cases of diabetes or kidney dysfunction).
Definition of Polydipsia
1. n. Excessive and constant thirst occasioned by disease.
Definition of Polydipsia
1. Noun. (medicine) Excessive and constant thirst occasioned by disease. ¹
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Definition of Polydipsia
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Medical Definition of Polydipsia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Polydipsia
Literary usage of Polydipsia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1849)
"There are three diseases in which excessive thirst and secretion of urine are
prominent symptoms; polydipsia, diabetes mellitus, and diabetes insipidus. ..."
2. Lectures on Clinical Medicine: Delivered at the Hôtel-Dieu, Paris by Armand Trousseau, Pierre Victor Bazire, John Rose Cormack (1870)
"It is in cases of polydipsia that from 15 to ic0 kilogrammes of urine are passed
in the 24 hours. In saccharine diabetes, the urine often, at first, ..."
3. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1842)
"This is remarkably the case in a disease of which the true pathology is unknown,
and which has been named polydipsia, from its chief symptom being an ..."
4. The Theory and practice of medicine by Frederick Thomas Roberts (1884)
"... polydipsia. PATHOLOGY AND ETIOLOGY.—The aetiology of diabetes insipidus is
very obscure, but the complaint seems to be allied to diabetes ..."
5. Modern medical therapeutics: A Compendium of Recent Formulæ and Specific by George Henry Napheys (1885)
"polydipsia. PROF. A. BOUCHARD AT. The Hygienic Treatment. This is always essential
to success. The excretions should be regular and complete ; the bladder ..."
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