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adipsia

 [ah-dip´se-ah]
absence of thirst; abnormal avoidance of drinking.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

a·dip·si·a

, adipsy (ă-dip'sē-ă, -dip'sē), Avoid the misspelling adypsia.
Absence of thirst or the lack of desire to drink.
[G. a- priv. + dipsa, thirst]
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adipsia

A condition characterised by the absence of thirst (or hypodipsia, if partial), even in the face of water depletion, which presents as hypernatraemic dehydration, most commonly due to a lesion of the anterior hypothalamus.
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a·dip·si·a

, adipsy (ă-dip'sē-ă, -dip'sē) Avoid the misspelling adypsia.
Absence of thirst or the lack of desire to drink.
[G. a- priv. + dipsa, thirst]
Medical Dictionary for the Dental Professions © Farlex 2012
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Hypernatremia has also been associated with adipsia in 50% of patients with hypothalamic tumors.
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