Conditions
DI
diabetes insipidus
A disorder of water balance involving large volumes of dilute urine. It is unrelated to diabetes mellitus despite the shared word.
How it gets tested
Tested against SIADH as the opposite water-balance problem, and against DM as the false cousin.
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