;Posted on 11/19/2014 5:53:08 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Wednesday, November 19, 2014-- iatrogenic
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
iatrogenic [ahy-a-truh-jen-ik, ee-a-]
adjective
1. (of a medical disorder) caused by the diagnosis, manner, or treatment of a physician.
2. (medical) (of an illness or symptoms) induced in a patient as the result of a physician's words or actions, especially as a consequence of taking a drug prescribed by the physician.
3. (social welfare) (of a problem) induced by the means of treating a problem but ascribed to the continuing natural development of the problem being treated.
Origin: 1920, from iatro- + -genic.
iatro a combining form meaning “healer,” “medicine,” “healing,” used in the formation of compound words
genic a combining form often corresponding to nouns ending in -gen, or -geny, with the following senses: “producing or causing” (hallucinogenic); “produced or caused by” (cosmogenic); “pertaining to a gene or genes” (polygenic); “pertaining to suitability for reproduction by a medium” (telegenic).
Related forms
iatrogenicity, noun
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My dogloos are now off to a rescue group, dogsdeservebetter, and I am happy they will be used. My pampered pups never used them. This group is the one that got Michael Vick’s dogs to safety and they own his house now.
xskids and I are planning a clay shooting outing on the eastern shore of MD to celebrate xshub’s 60th bday in early Dec. Hope it’s a bit warmer then!
the sterno or whatever they burn to heat that food smells HORRIFIC to me, let alone the sanitation of the food itself!
isn’t that fitting!
Off to play a little racquetball. Be back later to grade papers.
They use the “your grandchild needs bail money” scam on the elderly, too.
but then I think of 19 of them pooping and peeing at will in my house!!!
that is terrible. though if either my dad or FIL had gotten such a call they would have laughed at the caller.
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. ;-)
16 degrees this morning, but nowhere near as windy as yesterday. Felt milder.
it was colder than yesterday but less windy, so yes, not as bad.
I like that!
The people commenting on that thread don’t seem to agree with you....but I hear too many gross stories about the taco trucks down here and they have a lot of power to refrigerate and heat things....I have no desire to eat from a cart on a corner.
Yikes - we are warming up today
The late Dr. Robert Mendelson in his book, Confessions of a Medical Heretic, defined this word as “Greek for ‘an infection you picked up in the hospital’.
Of course the medical profession does not want to tell you about the infections you can pick up in the hospital. There are germs floating around in there that you can’t find anyplace else in town! So instead we tell you in Greek.”
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Excellent information. Thanks.
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Good one!
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Wow! A limerick with an anagram thrown in. After shoveling out from, what, 6, maybe 7 feet of snow?
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