单词 | idiopathically |
释义 | idiopathicallyadv. Medicine. Originally: in the manner or as part of an idiopathic disease (now rare). In later use: by an unexplained or unknown mechanism. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > types > [adverb] > primary disease idiopathetically1681 idiopathically1695 1695 J. Pechey Store-house Physical Pract. lxv. 198 The Cure of this Disease is to be directed to the Causes of it, which as is said before, produce this Disease Sympathically, or Idiopathically. 1706 tr. F. de la Calmette Riverius Reformatus ii. xviii. 243 The principal Organ of Respiration, the Lungs, are idiopathically and chiefly affected. 1861 T. J. Graham Pract. Med. 678 We must carefully watch for the symptoms of the complications, and treat them..much as when they occur idiopathically. 1948 A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behavior Human Male v. 186 The boy had been diagnosed by the clinician as ‘idiopathically precocious in development’. 2008 Neurosci. Res. 61 227/2 Epilepsy..results commonly from an abnormal increase in neuronal excitability, which may be caused idiopathically. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adv.1695 |
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