Polydipsia Polydipsia Polydipsia is excessive thirst or excess drinking. The word derives from the Greek () "very thirsty", which is derived from (, "much, many") + (, "thirst"). Polydipsia is a nonspecific symptom in various medical disorders. It also occurs as an abnormal behaviour in some non-human animals, such as in birds. This symptom is characteristically found in diabetics, often as one of the initial symptoms, and in those who fail to take their anti-diabetic medications or whose condition is poorly controlled. It can also be caused by a change in the osmolality of the extracellular fluids of the body, hypokalemia,
Southwest Medical University regions and municipalities, and many come from other countries. The staff number at around 2,560, with 520 of them being onsite professors or associate professors whose focus includes Western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, and a hybrid combination of the two. Facility wise, the college has five non-subordinating hospitals and 39 teaching hospitals with a total of 15,500 patient beds. Southwest Medical University Southwest Medical University (, formerly Luzhou Medical College (), is a medical university in Luzhou, Sichuan, China. The school was first established in 1951 as Southern Sichuan Doctors' School (). In 1958, the school was renamed as Luzhou