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The term '''diabetes''' can mean one of two quite different ]s which usually involve excessive urination (''polyuria'') when untreated: |
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* 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 |
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* 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 ] ("pisse prophecy"). |
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In common modern usage, "diabetes" always refers to ]. The current medical shorthand term for diabetes insipidus is "D.I." |
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