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English
Etymology
From idio- + -pathy. First appears c. 1634, in the publications of Philiatreus (fl. 1630).
Noun
idiopathy (plural idiopathies)
- (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 with hereditary and transmissible disorders, such as mental deficiency, epilepsy, idiopathies, etc.
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Translations
a disease having no known cause