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POLYDIPSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does polydipsia mean? 

POLYDIPSIA (noun)
  The noun POLYDIPSIA has 1 sense:

1. excessive thirst (as in cases of diabetes or kidney dysfunction)play

  Familiarity information: POLYDIPSIA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


POLYDIPSIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Excessive thirst (as in cases of diabetes or kidney dysfunction)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("polydipsia" is a kind of...):

thirst; thirstiness (a physiological need to drink)

Holonyms ("polydipsia" is a part of...):

diabetes (a polygenic disease characterized by abnormally high glucose levels in the blood; any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst)


 Context examples 


Patients present with anemia, polyuria, and polydipsia during childhood.

(Familial Juvenile Nephronophthisis, NCI Thesaurus)

Clinical signs include obesity, short stature, pubertal delay, hypogonadism, visual impairment, polydipsia and polyuria.

(Frohlich Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)



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