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"Idiopathic is an adjective used primarily in medicine meaning arisin spontaneously or from an obscure or unknown cause. From Greek, idios (one's own) + pathos (suffering), it means approximately "a disease of its own kind.""
"In his book The Human Body, Isaac Asimov noted a comment about the term "idiopathic" made in the 20th edition of Stedman's Medical Dictionary: "A high-flown term to concealignorance." Similarly, in the American television show House, the title character remarks that the word "comes from the Latin, meaning 'we're idiots, because we don't know what's causing it.'""
