| 1. | The closest I could find on wikipedia was Polydipsia.
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| 2. | Under these conditions it is called schedule induced polydipsia or sometimes, adjunctive drinking.
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| 3. | A persistent desire to drink inordinate quantities of water is a psychological condition termed polydipsia.
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| 4. | Diagnostic tests for primary polydipsia usually involves the fluid deprivation test to exclude ADH problems.
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| 5. | Primary polydipsia describes excessive thirst and water intake caused in the absence of physiological stimuli to drink.
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| 6. | Hyposecretion of insulin results in diabetes mellitus; cardinal signs are polyuria, polydipsia, and polyphagia.
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| 7. | Basically, thiazides allow increased solute excretion in the urine, breaking the polydipsia-polyuria cycle.
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| 8. | One study suggested that around 70 % of patients with self-induced polydipsia were tobacco smokers.
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| 9. | Osmotic diuresis results in dehydration from polyuria and the classic polydipsia ( excessive thirst ) associated with DM.
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| 10. | Furthermore, ACE inhibitors may also be used to help decrease excessive water consumption in schizophrenic patients with psychogenic polydipsia.
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