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Diabetes mellitus (DM) comes from the Greek roots 'diabetes' which means (pass through; a lot of urine) and the Latin word 'mellitus' meaning (honey-like, sweet), while the word insipidus in diabetes insipidus (DI) comes from Latin which basically means (tasteless).

This is because in times gone, when a patient urinated a lot, he was said to have diabetes. But to distinguish whether it was DM or DI, physicians had to taste the urine of the patient; if it was sweet, that is, mellitus, then it's DM. If it was tasteless, or insipidus, then it's DI.

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Diabetes mellitus (DM) comes from the Greek roots 'diabetes' which means (pass through; a lot of urine) and the Latin word 'mellitus' meaning (honey-like, sweet), while the word insipidus in diabetes insipidus (DI) comes from Latin which basically means (tasteless).

This is because in times gone, when a patient urinated a lot, he was said to have diabetes. But to distinguish whether it was DM or DI, physicians had to taste the urine of the patient; if it was sweet, that is, mellitus, then it's DM. If it was tasteless, or insipidus, then it's DI.

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