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refringent (medicine)


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refractive


Serving or having power to refract, or turn from a direct course; pertaining to refraction; as, refractive surfaces; refractive powers. Refractive index.

<medicine> The ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction for a ray passing out of one of the media into the Other.

Origin: Cf. F. Refractif. See Refract.

Source: Websters Dictionary


diabetes insipidus, nephrogenic (medicine)


diabetes insipidus, nephrogenic


A rare congenital and familial form of diabetes insipidus, resulting from failure of the renal tubules to absorb water. There is excessive production of antidiuretic hormones but the tubules fail to respond to it.