Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Induced in a patient by a physician's activity, manner, or therapy. Used especially of an infection or other complication of treatment.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- adj. induced by a physician's words or therapy (used especially of a complication resulting from treatment)
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ἰατρός (iatros, "doctor") + -genic. (Wiktionary)
- Greek iātros, physician; see -iatric + -genic. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Haldol has been documented in shrinking peoples brains which you know is called iatrogenic illness.”
“It's called iatrogenic illness but these doctors who're causing the illness haven't a clue because they are surgeons.”
“In real medicine it's called iatrogenic disease, disease produced by the application of medical intervention.”
“senator Pat Moynihan called "iatrogenic government.”
Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis
“CT scans increase cancer risk - do U understand 'iatrogenic' illness - most probably not, uhh?!?!”
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“Many biological psychiatrists who base their practices around medication management will tell you the condition doesn't exist, or that if it exists it is "iatrogenic," meaning it is caused by therapists training their patients to interpret their symptoms as if they have a whole set of distinct personalities.”
“Are we really designed to be omnivores OR does a plant based diet suit us best? www. foodkills.org Dr.M. Klaper www. vegsource.com MEDICAL STATISTICS * The third highest cause of deaths in the US is what is termed "iatrogenic", which means "induced in a patient by a physician's activity, manner, or therapy.”
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“Treatment options available for iatrogenic lip hypertrophy caused by your doctor and the genetic variety are limited.”
The Huffington Post: Robert Tornambe, M.D.: Lip Reduction Surgery-A Contrary Trend
“All forms of iatrogenic lip hypertrophy are treatable, but prevention is obviously the best route.”
The Huffington Post: Robert Tornambe, M.D.: Lip Reduction Surgery-A Contrary Trend
“Date: August 25, 2007 at 12: 42 pm PST our results raise the possibility that CJD cases classified as VV1 may include cases caused by iatrogenic transmission of sCJD-MM1 prions or food-borne infection by type 1 prions from animals, e.g., chronic wasting disease prions in cervid.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘iatrogenic’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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iamatology, iamb, ianthine, iatraliptic, iatramelia, iatrarchy, iatrochemistry, iatrogenic, iatrology, iatromathematics, iatrophobia, ibidem and 510 more...
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Psycho
To see,feel, touch people as objects with emotion instead as empty shells. These objects may be hollow or shallow or solid. But it has shape which can be shaped further and polished well. With that...
egodystonic, egosyntonic, narcissism, altruism, empathy, efficacy, epigenetic, congruence, prognosis, etiology, iatrogenic, tacit and 1 more...
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Better Words
Extremely fond of adjectives. To conquer phlegmatic speech and indolent phrases.
auric, hemispherical, quadrivial, adumbral, weighty, deuced, aliquot, commendable, anterior, osculant, ferly, enceinte and 26 more...
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akin
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“that which produces,â€
(Origin:
F -gène
Gk. genés 'born, produced';
L. genus, 'kin')mutagen, mutagenesis, pathogen, pathogenesis, progeny, mitogen, parthenogenesis, transgene, mucinogen, myogenic, autogenic, endogenous and 83 more...
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-genic
producing, produced, or suited to
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legerdemain, polysemic, rupestrian, callipygian, oscitancy, numen, lucubration, asperity, amalgam, apposite, wastrel, eleemosynary and 208 more...
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JesusIsLord's Words
debauchery, plethora, wiki, numinous, wormwood, scribe, gelded, mithridate, orthogonal, jaculiferous, jaculate, jactitation and 415 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, I
irenic, inimical, ignotism, infrangible, internecine, illumine, ingot, imposter, iconoclast, indefeasible, indefatigable, impingement and 184 more...
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addendumb's Words
fey, cockshut, redact, beatific, melange, arcanum, rarefied, dissemble, capitulation, detritus, ennui, anodyne and 381 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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iatro-, -iatry, -iatric
of or relating to doctors or medical treatment
iatrogenic, psychiatry, pediatrics, hypochondriac, iatrophysical
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Wordnik Words
Words that appear on the home page of Wordnik.
abaci, cabooleat, endomorphic, warfinger, varna, tautological, quesadillia, hub, oceanography, ken, ignimbrite, galactagogue and 110 more...
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compotation, deodand, lignify, obstreperous, noetic, promantia, nostrum, cynosure, sesquipedalian, callipygian, inchoate, hortatory and 93 more...
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obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
Tweets
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mafflard Many times I have had extremely iatrogenic high blood pressure Feb 23, 2009