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polydipsia
The drinking of water in abnormally large amounts.
It may be psycogenic, or secondary to dehydration due to any cause, or an attempt to keep up with a sustained polyuria, as in diabetes insipidus or diabetes mellitus.
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“polydipsia”
psychogenic nocturnal polydipsia syndrome
Emotionally induced excessive water drinking at night.
This entry is located in the following units:
dipso-, -dipsia, -dipsy, -dipsias +
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nocti-, noct-, nox
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poly-
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psychogenic polydipsia
Excessive fluid consumption resulting from a disorder of the personality, without any demonstrable organic lesion (pathological or traumatic discontinuity of tissue or loss of the function of a body part).
This entry is located in the following units:
dipso-, -dipsia, -dipsy, -dipsias +
(page 3)
poly-
(page 20)