idiopathy

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ɪdiˈɒpəθi/    美 /ɪdiˈɑpəθi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A disease or condition arising spontaneously or having no known cause.
    — 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.

词形变化

idiopathies plural

词源

From Latin idiopathia, from Ancient Greek ἰδιοπάθεια (idiopátheia). By surface analysis, idio- + -pathy. First appears c. 1634, in the publications of Philiatreus (fl. 1630).
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