enthetic

[en-thet-ik]

adjective

1. introduced from without, as diseases propagated by inoculation.

enthetic

/ ɛnˈθɛtɪk /

adjective

1. (esp of infectious diseases) introduced into the body from without

Word History and Origins

Origin of enthetic¹

1865–70; < Greek enthetikós, equivalent to énthet ( os ) (verbid of entithénai to put in, equivalent to en- en- ² + tithénai to put) + -ikos -ic

Word History and Origins

Origin of enthetic¹

C19: from Greek enthetikos, from entithenai to put in

Example Sentences

Is a special proclivity to any of the group of enthetic febrile diseases ever inherited?

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Two important factors, especially, must be kept in view in comparing the causation of diseases in colder and warmer countries—namely, the difference in the articles of food partaken of in each, and the external sources of enthetic disorders; e.g. endemic and epidemic fevers, etc.

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That such organisms are the essential and direct causes of enthetic maladies by invading the human and other living bodies as parasites, consuming and disorganizing their tissues, blood corpuscles,20 etc.

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Particularly near the beginning of an attack of enthetic disease, such as scarlet fever, small-pox, typhus or typhoid fever, the physician should beware of too confidently forecasting the progress of the case for better or for worse.

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The absence of the characters belonging to definite organisms31 in the easily-studied virus of small-pox and vaccinia stands, a priori, against the probability of such organisms being essential to the causation of other enthetic diseases.

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