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insensible thirst (medicine)


insensible thirst -->
hypodipsia


A physiologic condition, perhaps caused by hypertonicity of body fluids, insufficient to initiate drinking but at times sufficient to sustain drinking when started; loosely, oligodipsia.

Synonym: insensible thirst, subliminal thirst.

Origin: hypo-+ G. Dipsa, thirst