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The term '''diabetes''' can mean one of two quite different ]s which usually involve excessive urination (''polyuria'') when untreated:
* the more common "sugar diabetes", ] where the amount of sugar in the blood is excessive; forms include type 1 (almost synonymous with juvenile or insulin-dependent diabetes), type 2 (almost synonymous with adult-onset or non-insulin-dependent diabetes) and gestational diabetes (during pregnancy) as well as many other types of nontransient hyperglycemia
* or the less common "water diabetes", ], where the body is incapable of concentrating ], leading to increased urine production, fluid loss and thirst.


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The meanings of the descriptors ''mellitus'' and ''insipidus'' refer to the tastes of the urine in the two conditions (''sweet'' and ''tasteless'' respectively) and date back to the days of gustatory urinalysis ("pisse prophecy").
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In common modern usage, "diabetes" is always used for ]. The current medical shorthand term for diabetes insipidus is "D.I."
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