idiopathy

English

Etymology

From idio- +‎ -pathy. First appears c. 1634, in the publications of Philiatreus (fl. 1630).

Noun

idiopathy (plural idiopathies)

1. (pathology) A disease or condition arising spontaneously or having no known cause.
   • 1970, D. V. Salcedo, M. G. Mujica, “A Study of Sterilized Women in the Urban Communities of the Western Area of Santiago, 1963-1966”, in The Journal of Sex Research, volume 6, number 1, page 42:

     The sterilization that was first conceived as a recourse of limited medical reach came to be considered an efficient eugenical procedure that could prevent descendents^[sic] with hereditary and transmissible disorders, such as mental deficiency, epilepsy, idiopathies, etc.

Derived terms

• idiopathic

Translations

a disease having no known cause

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