Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (medicine) Causing a patient to need medical attention, especially when caused by a medical treatment.
2. (by extension) Pertaining to professional attention or opinions that cause the need for further professional attention or opinions.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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

Further, study of reference sources will give insight into iatropic problems, (i.e., Different professionals see the same situation from different viewpoints and may therefore draw different conclusions.)

One wonders on the other hand if this is not an iatropic problem in that the original theory of plate tectonics is not in some way askew and that the unbending is really not necessary to explain because that is the way it ought to be in any case.

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

Word Forms

• more iatropic
• most iatropic

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