idiopathicaladj.
/ˌɪdɪəˈpaθᵻkl/, U.S. /ˌɪdiəˈpæθək(ə)l/ Medicine. Now rare.
= idiopathic adj. 1.
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idiopathical1664
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protopathic1714
substantive1815
1664 G. Havers tr. T. Renaudot et al. Gen. Coll. Disc. Virtuosi France lxxx. 473 Many Antepileptical remedies cure it; but that which proceeds by sympathie from the stomack, or other parts, more easily then that which is idiopathical [Fr. l'idiopathique], and radicated in the brain.
1715 tr. J. Groeneveld Grounds of Physick ix. 164 What is a primary or idiopathical Disease? That which is properly a Disease per se, and has no dependance upon another, and therefore requires a peculiar method of Cure.
1742 J. Martyn tr. W. Harris Treat. Acute Dis. Infants 29 The bigger Children being attacked with febrile Symptoms, generally complain of their Heads, which Pain, in all Probability, is seldom idiopathical.
1815 Crit. Rev. July 2 It may be asserted in strictness, that fevers are rarely idiopathical.
1848 Brit. & Foreign Medico-chirurg. Rev. 1 92 There are four principal types of the idiopathical condition—the rheumatic, inflammatory, septic, and nervous.
1973 Curr. Topics Pathol. 58 58 Thus Stanton et al...regarded the remarkable syntropy of diabetes with the idiopathical type of Addison's disease as an indication of a common autoimmune disorder.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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