Hypertext Webster Gateway: "idiopathic"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Idiopathic \Id`i*o*path"ic\, Idiopathical \Id`i*o*path"ic*al\,
a. [Cf. F. idiopathique.] (Med.)
Pertaining to idiopathy; characterizing a disease arising
primarily, and not in consequence of some other disease or
injury; -- opposed to {symptomatic}, {sympathetic}, and
{traumatic}. -- {Id`i*o*path"ic*al*ly}, adv.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
idiopathic
adj : (of diseases) arising from an unknown cause; "idiopathic
epilepsy"
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