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I tire and can go funny - caused by medical treatment?
Answer for the clue "I tire and can go funny - caused by medical treatment? ", 10 letters:
iatrogenic
Word definitions for iatrogenic in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. induced by a physician's words or therapy (used especially of a complication resulting from treatment)
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context medicine of a disease, injury, or other bad outcome English) induced by the words or actions of the physician or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedure.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1920, from iatro- + -genic .
Usage examples of iatrogenic.
This appears to have been the major contributing factor to the high incidence of iatrogenic schizophrenia they later developed.
You have to weigh the diminishingly small chance of finding something wronganything at allwith the risk of producing an iatrogenic condition from the testing procedures.