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Usage examples of "insipidus".
If the stalk connecting the hypothalamus to the posterior pituitary is cut, diabetes insipidus results, even though the gland itself remains unharmed.
Mackenzie quotes a case from Trousseau, in which an individual afflicted with diabetes insipidus passed 32 liters of urine daily and drank enormous quantities of water.
How long could the victim have lived with the illness of diabetes insipidus following her abduction and prior to her death, with the medication that she required not being available to her?