polydipsia
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Polydipsia is excessive thirst or excess drinking. The word derives , which is derived . Polydipsia is a nonspecific symptom in various medical disorders. It also occurs as an abnormal behaviour in some non-human animals, such as in birds.
Key facts
- Medical condition (new).name
- Polydipsia
- Medical condition (new).field
- Endocrinology, psychiatry
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Research
4,251 papers- Polyuria-polydipsia syndrome: a diagnostic challenge.Internal medicine journal · 2018
- Primary polydipsia: Update.Best practice & research. Clinical endocrinology & metabolism · 2020
- Polyuria and Polydipsia in Horses.The Veterinary clinics of North America. Equine practice · 2022
- Diabetes Insipidus: An Update.Endocrinology and metabolism clinics of North America · 2020
- Fifteen-minute consultation: Polydipsia, polyuria or both.Archives of disease in childhood. Education and practice edition · 2019
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Wikidata facts
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- ICD-9-CM
- 783.5
- ICPC 2 ID
- T01
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000560
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C50700
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Article
8 sectionsContents
- Causes
- Diabetes
- Other physiological causes
- Primary polydipsia
- Diagnosis
- See also
- References
- External links
Polydipsia is excessive thirst or excess drinking. The word derives , which is derived . Polydipsia is a nonspecific symptom in various medical disorders. It also occurs as an abnormal behaviour in some non-human animals, such as in birds.
==Causes== ===Diabetes=== Polydipsia can be characteristic of diabetes mellitus, often as an initial symptom. It is observed in cases of poorly controlled diabetes, which is sometimes the result of low patient adherence to anti-diabetic medication.