Iatropic

Quick meaning: Iatropic is an adjective meaning (medicine) Causing a patient to need medical attention, especially when caused by a medical treatment.

Meaning

(medicine) Causing a patient to need medical attention, especially when caused by a medical treatment.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) Pertaining to professional attention or opinions that cause the need for further professional attention or opinions.

Example Sentences

Antihypertensive agents also are considered to contribute to dialysis hypotension through vasodilation, negative iatropic effects on the heart, or both.

This latter effect is analogous to the problem of iatropic illness in medicine, in which treatment for one condition inadvertently induces another illness or problem.

If not, was it casually discovered by the patient or by a physician in the course of an examination? If the latter, inquire carefully as to secondary iatropic factors.

Second, the very act of maintenance, even when performed correctly often induces problems in previously functioning machinery (so-called iatropic maintenance problems) .

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include iatrogenic, iatrotropic, iatrogenous, algogenic, procatarctic, atopic.

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