idiopathic
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- adjective
- /ˌɪdiəˈpæθɪk/
- Specialized
:
idiopático
- "Idiopathic hirsutism occurs in women who have hair follicles highly sensitive to normal female androgen."
- idiopathic scoliosis
- idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
- idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis
So doctors say, well, it's idiopathic, which means the idiots don't know.
- So doctors say, well, it's idiopathic, which means the idiots don't know.
- It's a, it's another one of those, you know, idiopathic illnesses, you know, an illness that's diagnosed by an idiot.
Examples
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Similar to clubfoot, congenital vertical talus can be classified into two groups: idiopathic and teratologic.
Academic text (2005) -
The highest incidence of scoliosis (80%) is idiopathic scoliosis, for which a clear etiology is unknown.
Academic text (2002) -
The disorder was considered idiopathic when no other cause could be identified.
Academic text (1995) -
In the majority of adults, CTS is believed to be idiopathic in origin.
Academic text (2015) -
A complete examination led to the diagnosis of idiopathic bilateral Meniere's disease.
Academic text (1995) -
Women aged 50-74 years admitted to the hospital for idiopathic VTE were identified from hospital records.
Academic text (1999) -
In contrast, more than half the cases of typical BPPV were idiopathic, and none had a CNS cause.
Academic text (1995) -
Kimura disease is a rare idiopathic condition that usually affects adolescent boys and young men of Asian descent.
Academic text (2010) -
In patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, nintedanib reduced the decline in FVC more than placebo.
Academic text (2014) -
Many patients with idiopathic conditions have no identifiable cause for their symptoms.
Compounds
- Specialized
A condition passed down in families where too much iron builds up in the body and harms organs
- Specialized
A condition that causes easy bruising and bleeding because the blood has very few platelets for no known reason
Surface Forms
Morphology
idiopathic = idiopathy (opaque) = idio + path + ic
The immediate base is a technical medical noun formed from Greek combining forms; these combining elements are not recognizable to average learners and do not transparently yield 'of unknown cause.'
Etymology
Idiopathic comes from Greek parts idio- meaning 'own' and pathos meaning 'suffering' or 'disease'. So an idiopathic illness is like an 'own disease' — one that appears by itself with no known cause.