idiopathy

English

Etymology

idio- +‎ -pathy

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.

Related terms

• idiopathic

Translations

a disease having no known cause

• Catalan: idiopatia (ca) f
• French: idiopathie (fr) f
• Greek: ιδιοπάθεια (el) f (idiopátheia)
• Icelandic: frumkvilli m
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• Italian: idiopatia (it) f
• Norwegian: idiopati (no) m
• Spanish: idiopatía f