Idiopathic

Definition: Idiopathic

Idiopathic

Adjective

1. (of diseases) arising from an unknown cause; "idiopathic epilepsy".

Specialty Definitions: Idiopathic

Domain	Definitions
Biology & Biotechnology	Is a term applied to diseases to indicate that their cause is unknown. Source: European Union. (references)
Health	Describes a disease of unknown cause. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Idiopathic hypoglycemia

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Idiopathic or common hypoglycemia is a condition in which the glucose level in the blood is abnormally low. Unlike other forms of hypoglycemia, this variety is not caused by medication, drugs, or illness. ("Idiopathic" is medicalese for "we don't know what causes it!")

Postprandial, or reactive, hypoglycaemia

When we eat a meal, we secrete insulin to move the sugars from the blood to the body's cells. In some people this mechanism overshoots and their blood-sugar level can get dangerously low after meals. This situation most commonly occurs with lunch-time meals that include foods high in sugar or carbohydrate and can be exacerbated by alcohol. The condition can be corrected, but may not be detected because it is fairly uncommon and may not be recognized.

A prolonged glucose tolerance test can help detect the condition. There have be been "fad" books claiming that a large number of bizarre symptoms are caused by this condition. The "real" symptoms can be serious enough, for example if the person loses consciousness while driving a car.

Insulin secreting tumours

A potentially serious form of idiopathic hypoglycaemia is caused by an insulin-secreting tumour of the pancreas. In this condition there are high levels of insulin despite blood sugar being low.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Idiopathic hypoglycemia."

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Crosswords: Idiopathic

English words defined with "idiopathic": Idiopathetic, idiopathic disease, idiopathic hemochromatosis, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. (references)

Specialty definitions using "idiopathic": Acrodermatitis, Astemizole ♦ Biperiden ♦ Femur Head Necrosis ♦ Glossitis, Benign Migratory ♦ Hidradenitis, HLA-A3 Antigen, HLA-B7 Antigen, Hypereosinophilic Syndrome, Hyperostosis, Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal ♦ idiopathic osteopsathyrosis, Immunoglobulins, Intravenous ♦ Jaundice, Chronic Idiopathic ♦ Ovarian Failure, Premature ♦ Purpura, Thrombocytopenic, Idiopathic, Pyoderma Gangrenosum ♦ Raynaud's disease, Raynaud's Phenomenon ♦ Terfenadine, T-Lymphocytopenia, Idiopathic CD4-Positive. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Idiopathic

Domain	Title
References	The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Epilepsy; a study of the idiopathic disease (reference) Growth Standards, Bone Maturation and Idiopathic Short Stature (Journal - Hormone Research , Vol 45, Suppl. 2) (reference) Idiopathic, Food-Induced and Drug-Induced Pseudo-Allergic Reactions (Par: Pseudo-Allergic Reactions: Involvement of Drugs and Chemicals, Vol 4) (reference) Intravenous immunoglobulins in immunodeficiency syndromes and idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (reference) Symposium on Idiopathic Low Back Pain (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Idiopathic

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Parsonnet J, Wanke C, Hack H. Idiopathic chronic diarrhea. (references)
		FSGS may result from a systemic disorder or may be idiopathic. (references)
		Cases in which a cause cannot be identified are called idiopathic. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Idiopathic

"Idiopathic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.13% of the time. "Idiopathic" is used about 115 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)	99.13%	114	30,294
Noun (proper)	0.87%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	115	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Idiopathic

Expressions using "idiopathic": idiopathic disease ♦ idiopathic hemochromatosis ♦ idiopathic myelofibrosis ♦ idiopathic osteopsathyrosis ♦ idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Idiopathic

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
idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis	128
idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura	79
idiopathic	24
idiopathic hypersomnia	24
idiopathic urticaria	21
idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura	20
idiopathic thrombocytopenia	17
idiopathic scoliosis	15
idiopathic edema	15
idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis	11
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Modern Translations: Idiopathic

Language		Translations for "idiopathic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		先天 (Congenital, inbred). (various references)

Danish		idiopatisk (idiopathic diffuse dermatrophy). (various references)

Dutch		idiopathisch. (various references)

Finnish		idiopatia (idiopathic disease), idiopaattinen sairaus (idiopathic disease), trigeminusneuralgia (idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia), spondylosis lumbalis (ankylosing hyperostosis, diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis), kolmoishermosärky (idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia), hyaliinimembraanitauti (hyaline membrane disease, IRDS, newborn idiopathic cardiorespiratory distress, newborn idiopathic respiratory distress, newborn respiratory distress syndrome, respiratory distress syndrome, respiratory distress syndrome of the newborn), hyaliinikalvotauti (hyaline membrane disease, IRDS, newborn idiopathic cardiorespiratory distress, newborn idiopathic respiratory distress, newborn respiratory distress syndrome, respiratory distress syndrome, respiratory distress syndrome of the newborn). (various references)

French		idiopathique. (various references)

German		idiopathisch. (various references)

Greek		ιδιοπαθής. (various references)

Italian		idiopatico. (various references)

Pig Latin		idiopathicay.(various references)

Portuguese		idiopático, idiopático. (various references)

Spanish		idiopático. (various references)

Thai		ซึ่งไม่ทราบสาเหตุ. (various references)

Turkish		idiyopatik, nedeni bilinmeyen hastalıkla ilgili. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Idiopathic

Derivations
	Words beginning with "idiopathic": idiopathically. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Idiopathic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ideopathic, idopathic. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Idiopathic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-h-i-i-i-o-p-t"
	-3 letters: aphotic, idiotic, ophitic, poditic.
	-4 letters: adipic, atopic, dacoit, haptic, phatic, photic.
	-5 letters: adopt, aitch, aphid, chapt, chiao, coapt, coati, dhoti, dicot, dicta, ditch, idiot, iodic, octad, oidia, optic, patch, patio, picot, pitch, poach, podia, tophi, topic.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-h-i-i-i-o-p-t"
	+4 letters: idiopathically.
	+5 letters: antiaphrodisiac.
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