Iatrogenic vs. Idiopathic

Iatrogenicadjective

Induced by the words or actions of the physician or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedure.

Iatrogenicadjective

induced by a physician's words or therapy (used especially of a complication resulting from treatment)

Idiopathicadjective

(pathology) Of, relating to, or designating a disease or condition having no known cause.

Idiopathicadjective

Pertaining to idiopathy; characterizing a disease arising primarily, and not in consequence of some other disease or injury; - opposed to symptomatic, sympathetic, and traumatic.

Idiopathicadjective

(of diseases) arising from an unknown cause;