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What does adipsia mean?

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Noun
  1. (medicine) Absence of thirst.
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The most common causes of adipsia include lesions and other forms of trauma that affect the thirst centre in the hypothalamus.
Behavioral treatment of adipsia in a child with hypothalamic injury.
In adipsia the brain's thirst centre, located in the hypothalamus, is damaged.
People with adipsia have little or no sensation of thirst when they become dehydrated.
Adipsia, also called hypodipsia, rare disorder characterized by the lack of thirst even in the presence of dehydration.

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