1Wild or distraught with fear, anxiety, or other emotion. âshe was frantic with worryâ. âThis time, however, he failed to return and his mother is frantic with worry about his safety.â. âI was frantic by then but it took four and half hours to resolve, when I convinced them over the phone what had happened.â. âI have been speaking to his dad and he and his wife are just frantic with worry, they can't sleep or eat.â. âWhen it was nearly evening and she had not returned home, her mother grew frantic.â.
Antidiuretic hormone (ADH), also called arginine vasopressin (AVP), is a hormone that helps regulate water balance in the body by controlling the amount of water the kidneys reabsorb while they are filtering wastes out of the blood.
antidiuretic hormone (ADH). syn vasopressin, neuroendocrine secretion from the posterior pituitary; acts in the kidneys to increase the retention of water when body fluid osmolality increases, e.g. with excessive sweat loss when fluid is not adequately replaced.