Dictionary

iatrogenic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /aɪˌætɹəˈd͡ʒɛnɪk/

Etymology

From iatro- + -genic.

Meanings

1. (of a disease, qualifier:injury; or other adverse outcome; injury; or other adverse outcome) Induced by the words or actions of the physician or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedure.
   • [Stewart] Brand never mentions any of this, even when—borrowing a term from medicine—he warns, elsewhere in the book, of “iatrogenic” disruptions, in which “a sloppy attempt to fix a problem makes the problem worse or adds a new one.” 2026 April 23, Alec Nevala-Lee, quoting Stewart Brand, “The Questionable Triumph of the ‘Baling Wire Hippies’”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:
   • These medicines addicted, sickened, or killed outright; they also could trigger chemical pneumonitis, or progressive lung injury, if inhaled during a bout of iatrogenic, or physician–triggered, vomiting. 2008, Harriet A. Washington, “Southern Discomfort”, in Medical Apartheid, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 42:
   • Another group argues that the diagnosis is being overused and that many of the diagnosed cases are iatrogenic, or unintentionally shaped or caused by the practitioner 2003, Michael L. Raulin, Abnormal Psychology, Pearson Education, Inc., page 494:

Forms

Deriveds

iatrogenicity · iatrogenically

Hyponyms

nosocomial

Translations (23)

nb iatrogen (induced by physician or medical treatment) · cs iatrogenní (induced by physician or medical treatment) · fi iatrogeeninen (induced by physician or medical treatment) · es iatrogénico (induced by physician or medical treatment) · it iatrogenico (induced by physician or medical treatment) · ms iatrogenik (induced by physician or medical treatment) · it iatrogeno (induced by physician or medical treatment) · is meðferðartengdur (cf. meðferð, tengdur) (induced by physician or medical treatment) · pt iatrogênico (induced by physician or medical treatment) · ca iatrogènic (induced by physician or medical treatment) · th โรคหมอทำ (induced by physician or medical treatment) · is af læknisvöldum (cf. læknir, vald) (induced by physician or medical treatment) · ru ятроге́нный (induced by physician or medical treatment) · de durch ärztliche Behandlung verursacht (induced by physician or medical treatment) · nl iatrogeen (induced by physician or medical treatment) · fr iatrogène (induced by physician or medical treatment) · fi hoidosta johtuva (induced by physician or medical treatment) · ga iatraigineach (induced by physician or medical treatment) · fr iatrogénique (induced by physician or medical treatment) · de iatrogen (induced by physician or medical treatment) · de iatrogenisch (induced by physician or medical treatment) · pt iatrogénico (induced by physician or medical treatment) · el ιατρογενής (induced by physician or medical treatment)