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Webster 1913 Edition
Idiopathy
Idˊi-op′a-thy
,Noun.
pl.
Idiopathies
(#)
. [Gr. [GREEK];
ἴδιοσ
proper, peculiar + [GREEK], [GREEK], to suffer: cf. F. idiopathie
.] 1.
A peculiar, or individual, characteristic or affection.
All men are so full of their own fancies and
idiopathies
, that they scarce have the civility to interchange any words with a stranger. Dr. H. More.
2.
(Med.)
A morbid state or condition not preceded or occasioned by any other disease; a primary disease.
Webster 1828 Edition
Idiopathy
IDIOP'ATHY
,Noun.
1.
An original disease in a particular part of the body; a disease peculiar to some part of the body and not proceeding from another disease.2.
Peculiar affection.Definition 2024
idiopathy
idiopathy
English
Noun
idiopathy (plural idiopathies)
- Something idiopathic; a disease having no known cause.
- 1970, D. V. Salcedo and M. G. Mujica "A Study of Sterilized Women in the Urban Communities of the Western Area of Santiago, 1963-1966," The Journal of Sex Research, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 42,
- The sterilization that was first conceived as a recourse of limited medical reach came to be considered as an efficient eugenical procedure that could prevent descendents with hereditary and transmissible disorders, such as mental deficiency, epilepsy, idiopathies, etc.
- 1970, D. V. Salcedo and M. G. Mujica "A Study of Sterilized Women in the Urban Communities of the Western Area of Santiago, 1963-1966," The Journal of Sex Research, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 42,