Dipsogen
A dipsogen is an agent that causes thirst. (From Greek: δίψα (dipsa), "thirst" and the suffix -gen, "to create".)
Physiology
Angiotensin II is thought to be a powerful dipsogen, and is one of the products of the renin–angiotensin pathway, a biological homeostatic mechanism for the regulation of electrolytes and water.
gollark: That sounds like what people might call "sad".
gollark: Well, yes, that is basically a synonym.
gollark: Anyway, you seem to be treating emotions as... actual physical properties of some sort. They're *not*. They're emergent behavior in people's brains, they're not subject to conservation laws or something any more than the amount of blue on my computer screen is.
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gollark: Like "quantum".
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