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IATROGENIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does iatrogenic mean?
• IATROGENIC (adjective)
The adjective IATROGENIC has 1 sense:
1. induced by a physician's words or therapy (used especially of a complication resulting from treatment)
Familiarity information: IATROGENIC used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Induced by a physician's words or therapy (used especially of a complication resulting from treatment)
Similar:
induced (brought about or caused; not spontaneous)
Domain category:
medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)
Context examples
The adverse effect of some iatrogenic therapies.
(Chemically Induced Cytotoxicity, NCI Thesaurus)
Pharmacogenomic studies can potentially be predictive of an individual's drug-response or adverse reactions or susceptibility to iatrogenic disorders, and may also reveal new targets that can help in the design of new drugs.
(Pharmacogenomic Study, NCI Thesaurus)
Traumatic injuries to the brain, cranial nerves, spinal cord, autonomic nervous system, or neuromuscular system, including iatrogenic injuries induced by surgical procedures.
(Nervous System Injury, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
This disease usually results from debilitation (as in immunosuppression and especially AIDS), physiologic change, prolonged administration of antibiotics, and iatrogenic and barrier breakage.
(Oropharyngeal Candidiasis, NCI Thesaurus)
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