enthetic

American  

[en-thet-ik] / ɛnˈθɛt ɪk /

adjective

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

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enthetic British  

/ ɛnˈθɛtɪk /

adjective

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

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Etymology

Origin of enthetic

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

Example Sentences

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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Enthetic causation—viz. that of all contagious, endemic, and epidemic diseases.

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The discussion of this subject will occur on a later page as a part of the general topic of the causation of enthetic diseases.

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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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