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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.
[Gr. proper, peculiar, and suffering, disease, to suffer.]
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)

  1. 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.

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