idiopath

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noun

A person who suffers from an idiopathic disease.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounidiopath (plural idiopaths)

plural idiopaths

  1. medicineA person who suffers from an idiopathic disease.

    One has to wonder whether these nutrient minimalists would have us believe that all of us idiopaths, whose neuropathy causations are by definition unknown, were idiotic in taking nutrients, and that if the supplements happened to work […]

    2002, John A. Senneff, Nutrients for Neuropathy (Numb Toes Series; 3), San Antonio, TX: MedPress, →ISBN, page 19
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    It may also explain why INS appears apparently idiopathically in some Down's infants (Lawson et al., 1996), who as a group also demonstrate delayed acuity development (Iohn et al., 2004). Thus, sensory delay may be the common antecedent event to INS development, although the cause of delay in idiopaths remains a mystery.

    2011, Chris Harris, “Oculomotor developmental pathology: an ‘evo-devo’ perspective”, in Simon Liversedge, Iain Gilchrist, Stefan Everling, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Eye Movements, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 678

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