diabetes

/ˌdaɪəˈbiːdiːz/noun

Diabetes insipidus; any condition marked by the passing of unusually large or uncontrolled amounts of urine, now especially the form caused by the body failing to produce or respond to the hormone vasopressin.

In everyday use the word means diabetes mellitus, the blood sugar condition; the insipidus form defined here is much rarer.

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