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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |