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Insipid

Insipid

1. Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food.

2. Wanting in spirit, life, or animation; uninteresting; weak; vapid; flat; dull; heavy; as, an insipid woman; an insipid composition. Flat, insipid, and ridiculous stuff to him. (South) But his wit is faint, and his salt, if i may dare to say so, almost insipid. (Dryden)

Synonym: tasteless, vapid, dull, spiritless, unanimated, lifeless, flat, stale, pointless, uninteresting.

Origin: L. Insipidus; pref. In- not _ sapidus savory, fr. Sapere to taste: cf. F. Insipide. See Savor.


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diabeties

I have a questions about Diabettus insipid. There is a friend of mine on 30's and she was a heavy smoker. Does the smoke involves on the Diabettus insipid. She suffer also from asthma/

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by arian
Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:17 am
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: diabeties
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photosynthesis

... the energy levels within the molecule, causing its absorbance spectrum to alter. Thus cooked leaves change colour - often becoming a paler, insipid yellowy green. I've already wrote in this forum about in this topic. U can search for that! Thanxs! Dip Jyoti Chakraborty

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by dipjyoti
Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:04 am
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: photosynthesis
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Water Drinking

By the way if you drink a lot of water you might have probelms: insipid diabethes, sugar diabethes... D.insipidus and D.melitus because too much water?? can you explain that? I'm starting to afraid drinking much water now... :lol:

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by victor
Mon Dec 26, 2005 12:45 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Water Drinking
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Water Drinking

By the way if you drink a lot of water you might have probelms: insipid diabethes, sugar diabethes...

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by MrMistery
Sun Dec 25, 2005 5:14 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Water Drinking
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Glomerulus

Yeap, if i remember correctly, insipid diabethes is when you lose glucose through urine, right?

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by MrMistery
Sun May 01, 2005 12:29 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Glomerulus
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