This week's theme: words related to medicine. idiopathy (id-ee-OP-uh-thee) noun
A disease of unknown origin or one having no apparent cause. [From New Latin idiopathia (primary disease), from Greek idiopatheia, from idios (one's own, personal) + -pathy (feeling, suffering).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=idiopathy -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "Beneath the complexity and idiopathy of every cancer lies a limited number of 'mission critical' events that have propelled the tumour cell and its progeny into uncontrolled expansion and invasion." Gerald I Evan and Karen H Vousden; Proliferation, Cell Cycle And Apoptosis* in Cancer; Nature (London, UK); May 17, 2001. *Apoptosis is the word for a cell's death by suicide, also known as Programmed Cell Death (PCD). Sponsors' messages: What specifically do generalists do? Find out at http://creativegeneralist.com Brainstorming is like cholesterol. It can be good or bad. Most of us only experience the bad. Learn the good. "Think Better" http://tenkaizen.com Announce your products, services, or message here. Reach more than 600,000 people in this space. Write to us at sponsorsATwordsmith.org (replace AT with @) ............................................................................ I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way. -Edgar Guest, poet (1881-1959) Send your comments to (words AT wordsmith.org). To unsubscribe, update address send gift subscription, etc., visit http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/idiopathy.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/idiopathy.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/idiopathy.html This message was sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
