(n.) A morbid an uncontrollable craving (often periodic) for drink, esp. for alcoholic liquors; also improperly used to denote acute and chronic alcoholism.
Example Sentences:
(1) The conclusion is drawn that elimination of ketosis in ethanol withdrawal as well as a progressive taking out of alcoholic patients from dipsomania can prevent the development or attenuate the intensity of postintoxication heart injury.
(2) Attention was payed to the character and duration of dipsomania.
(3) In experimental dipsomania model (formation of physical dependence by method of intensive alcoholization) we have studied receptor binding of testosterone (T) and estradiol (E2) in the hypothalamus and pituitary body of mature male rats.