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Definition: Iatrogenic |
IatrogenicAdjective1. (medicine) induced by a physician's words or therapy (used especially of a complication resulting from treatment). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Resulting from the activity of physicians. Originally applied to disorders induced in the patient by autosuggestion based on the physician's examination, manner, or discussion, the term is now applied to any adverse condition in a patient occurring as the result of treatment by a physician or surgeon, especially to infections acquired by the patient during the course of treatment. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Iatrogenic |
| Specialty definitions using "iatrogenic": Iatrogenic Disease ♦ Trauma, Nervous System. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Doctors call these cases that are linked to medical procedures iatrogenic cases. (references) | |
More individualized care plans, which are based on a better understanding of individual client preferences, may avoid the use of psychoactive drugs that invite iatrogenic complications. (references) | ||
Any active medical condition that may explain the presence of chronic fatigue , such as untreated hypothyroidism, sleep apnea and narcolepsy, and iatrogenic conditions such as side effects of medication. (references) | ||
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| "Iatrogenic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Iatrogenic" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 17 | 85,106 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "iatrogenic": Iatrogenic Disease. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "iatrogenic": non-iatrogenic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
iatrogenic | 21 |
cushings iatrogenic | 2 |
complication iatrogenic | 2 |
iatrogenic disease | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "iatrogenic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 医原性. (various references) | |
Danish | iatrogen. (various references) | |
Dutch | iatrogeen. (various references) | |
Finnish | iatrogeeninen, lääkärin aiheuttama, hoidosta johtuva. (various references) | |
French | iatrogène, iatrogène, iatrique. (various references) | |
German | iatrogen. (various references) | |
Greek | ιατρογενής. (various references) | |
Italian | iatrogeno. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 医原病 (iatrogenic disease). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | い'"びょう (iatrogenic disease). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iatrogenicay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | iatrogénico, iatorgénico. (various references) | |
Romanian | tratament (cure, handling, medicine, regimen, treatment). (various references) | |
Spanish | yatrogénico. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "iatrogenic": iatrogenically. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-i-n-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: originate. | |
-2 letters: anoretic, argentic, catering, creating, creation, gerontic, granitic, reacting, reaction, reaginic, reciting, rigatoni. | |
-3 letters: aconite, acrogen, airting, anergic, argotic, carotin, carting, ceratin, certain, cigaret, citrine, coagent, coating, cognate, coinage, cointer, coreign, crating, creatin, crinite, enactor, ergotic, erotica, genitor, granite, gratine, igniter, ignitor, inciter, inertia, ingrate, negator, neritic, noritic, noticer, oneiric, orating, organic, rioting, tacrine, tangier, tearing, tiering, tracing, tricing. | |
-4 letters: acetin, acting, action, aeonic, agonic, aigret, airing, aortic, arcing, argent, aroint, atoner, atonic, cagier, canter, cantor, caring, carnet, carnie, carton, cation, centai, centra, cering, citing, citrin, citron, coater, cogent, coigne, coiner, conger, congii, contra, coring, cornea, cornet, cortin, coting, craton, cretin, cringe, earing, eating, enatic, engirt, eringo, erotic, gainer, gaiter, garcon, garnet, garote, gitano, goiter, goitre, gratin, iatric, ignite, ignore, incage, incite, ingate, irenic, ironic, nectar, nitric, noetic, norite, notice, oaring, octane, onager, onagri, orange, orcein, orgeat, orgiac, orient, origan, origin, ornate, racing, ratine, rating, ration, reagin, recant, recoin, regain, regina, region, retain, retina, ricing, tanrec, taring, tieing, tinier, tiring, toeing, tonger, tonier, tragic, trance, triage, trigon. | |
-5 letters: acing, acini, acorn, actin, actor, agent, agone, anger, antic, antre, areic, argon, argot, atone, cager, cairn, caner, canoe, canto, caret, cargo, carte, cater, cento, ceria, cigar, citer, coati, coign, conga, conge, conte, corgi, coria, cotan, crane, crate, crone, enact, entia, ergot, erica, garni, gator, genic, genii, genoa, genro, giant, giron, goner, gonia, grace, grain, grant, grate, great, griot, groan, groat, groin, icier, icing, incog, inert, ingot, inter, intro, ionic, irate, iring, irone, nacre, narco, naric, nicer, niter, nitre, nitro, noria, noter, oaten, oater, ocean, ocrea, octan, ontic, orang, orate, orcin, organ, orgic, racon, rance, range, ratio, react, recon, recta, recti, recto, regna, reign, renig, retag, retia, riant, ricin, tango, targe, taroc, tenia, tenor, terai, terga, tiger, tigon, tinea, tinge, togae, toner, tonga, tonic, toric, torii, trace, tragi, train, triac, trice, trigo, trine, trona, trone. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-i-n-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: excoriating. | |
+2 letters: categorising, categorizing, gastrocnemii, geometrician, organicities, vociferating. | |
+3 letters: commiserating, configurative, cosignatories, decorticating, democratizing, geometricians, precautioning, reciprocating, regionalistic, reinoculating, saprogenicity. | |
+4 letters: anticarcinogen, categorization, centrifugation, coinvestigator, conservatizing, containerising, containerizing, counterraiding, countervailing, dechlorinating, gentrification, iatrogenically, intercomparing, noninteracting, overcautioning, overmedicating, serodiagnostic, teratogenicity, terminological. | |
+5 letters: anticarcinogens, anticholinergic, carcinogenicity, categorizations, centrifugations, cinematographic, coinvestigators, collateralizing, commiseratingly, counterclaiming, counterstaining, gentrifications, intercollegiate, prognosticative, recognizability, reconfiguration, reconsolidating, recontaminating, reincorporating, saprogenicities, subcategorizing, trigonometrical. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01100001 01110100 01110010 01101111 01100111 01100101 01101110 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I a t r o g e n i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0061 0074 0072 006F 0067 0065 006E 0069 0063 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43678684817371807569 |
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