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An idiopathic disease is any disease with an unknown cause or mechanism of apparent spontaneous origin. [ 1 ] For some medical conditions, one or more causes are somewhat understood, but in a certain percentage of people with the condition, the cause may not be readily apparent or characterized.
Idiopathic is a descriptive term used in medicine to denote diseases with an unknown cause or mechanism of apparent spontaneous origin. [10] Examples of idiopathic diseases include: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, Idiopathic intracranial hypertension, and Idiopathic pulmonary haemosiderosis.
Idiopathic pneumonia syndrome; Idiopathic postprandial syndrome; Idiopathic pure sudomotor failure; Iliotibial band syndrome; Imerslund–Gräsbeck syndrome; Immersion foot syndromes; Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome; Immunodeficiency–centromeric instability–facial anomalies syndrome; Impingement syndrome; Imposter syndrome ...
Idiopathic chronic fatigue; Idiopathic giant-cell myocarditis; Idiopathic hypercalcinuria; Inflammatory demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system; Idiopathic interstitial pneumonia; Idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease; Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; Immune thrombocytopenic purpura
Origin language and etymology Example(s) bacillus: rod-shaped Latin baculus, stick Bacillus anthracis: bacteri-Pertaining to bacteria: Latin bacterium; Greek βακτήριον (baktḗrion), small staff bacteriophage, bactericide: balan-of the glans penis or glans clitoridis: Greek βάλανος (bálanos), acorn, glans balanitis: bas-of or ...
Chagas disease; Chickenpox; Copenhagen disease; Croup; Cystic fibrosis; Cytomegalovirus (the virus most frequently transmitted before birth) Dental caries; Type 1 diabetes; Diphtheria; Duchenne muscular dystrophy; Fifth disease; Congenital Heart Disease; Infectious mononucleosis; Influenza; Intussusception (medical disorder) Juvenile idiopathic ...
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Inflammatory demyelinating diseases (IDDs), sometimes called Idiopathic (IIDDs) due to the unknown etiology of some of them, are a heterogenous group of demyelinating diseases - conditions that cause damage to myelin, the protective sheath of nerve fibers - that occur against the background of an acute or chronic inflammatory process.