单词 | idiopathy |
释义 | idiopathyn. Now rare. 1. Medicine. a. Originally: origin of a disease or disorder in the affected part only, or as a primary process independent of other disease (cf. sympathy n. 1b) (now historical). In later use: unexplained or unknown causation (of a disease or disorder). Also in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > types > [noun] > primary disease idiopathy1634 protopathy1858 1634 ‘Philiatreus’ Gen. Pract. Med. sig. A3 v Having found out the part that is troubled, next yee must search whether it is by Idiopathie or by Sympathie: because it is requisit first to help the part that is troubled by the owne proper desert. a1640 T. Jackson Exact Coll. Wks. (1654) 3119 The Idiopathy (as Physitians speak) is in The Soul; the Sympathy only in the Spirit or Conscience. 1671 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 6 2292 The Parts, which are primarily and by idiopathy affected in a Consumption. ?1753 tr. J. Groeneveld Rudim. Physick ix. 191 A Disease that is properly primary, or by Idiopathy, is one that has no Dependence on another in the same Body. 1778 C. Erskine tr. H. D. Gaubius Inst. Medicinal Pathol. 330 Sympathetic affections..differ from secondary diseases, the nature of which they at last attain when sympathy passes into idiopathy. 1826 Lancet 8 July 454/1 Pathological researches..may lead him, in a thousand instances, to mistake effects for causes, the results of symptoms or accidents for that of idiopathy. 1906 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 33 13 To establish the idiopathy, a negative process had naturally to be resorted to,—namely, exclusion of all those factors that would make, or even tend to make, a case non-idiopathic. 1980 Jrnl. Small Animal Pract. 21 483 (title) Canine pruritus: an approach to diagnosis. Stages III and IV. Allergy and idiopathy. 1993 Avian Dis. 37 921/1 Malacic disease of the central nervous system..due to dietary deficiencies, ingestion of toxicants or excessive levels of a micronutrient, or idiopathy. b. An instance of this; an idiopathic disease or disorder. Also in figurative context. ΚΠ 1634 ‘Philiatreus’ Gen. Pract. Med. sig. A3 v An Idiopathie is by this discerned from a Sympathie, when the sore is alone, continuall, and without intermission, and receaves neither increase nor diminution, by the augmentation or declination of any disease that is in any other part. 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Idiopathie, in Physick, a primary Disease. 1833 New Monthly Mag. 39 129 This moral idiopathy, which neither proceeds from nor depends on any other disease,..this itch for seeing memorable places..is peculiarly English. 1871 G. H. Taylor Dis. Women 318 Idiopathy—a disease arising spontaneously. 1930 Lancet 24 May 1141/2 If it [sc. grass pollen] gains access to the blood stream it may provoke any of the symptoms of the toxic idiopathies. 2006 CNS Spectrums 11 225 Explanatory and pragmatic perspectives are used to examine these idiopathies with regard to causation, case definition, labels, and treatment. 2. A feeling or sensation experienced only by a particular person; an individual or personal state of feeling. Also: †an expression of such a feeling. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > types of emotion > [noun] > individual idiopathy1642 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > [noun] > physical sensation > a physical sensation > peculiar to an individual or class idiopathy1642 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. E4v For all men are so full of their own phansies and idiopathyes, that they scarce have the civility to interchange any words with a stranger. a1688 R. Cudworth Treat. Eternal & Immutable Morality (1731) ii. iii. 54 It is Impossible to demonstrate..that any two Men have the very same Phantasms or Ideas of Red or Green, these being Idiopathies. 1852 Benares Mag. Feb. 156 The proper business of Journalism is, not to produce plausible and ingenious conceits of one's own—(much less rash and ill-sustained idiopathies, neither plausible nor ingenious)—but to give an accurate account of the work reviewed. 1963 Art Bull. 45 75/1 At times he stands back from himself without illusion, almost whimsically revelling in the vanity of the motives he finds... At others he both recoils from and sucks the venom of his own idiopathy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1634 |
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