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Definition of Cryptogenic
1. Adjective. (context: of an organism) Of uncertain origin, either introduced or native to its area. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of epilepsy) Presumed but not proven to be caused by an abnormality in a particular part of the brain (contrasts with symptomatic and idiopathic). ¹
3. Adjective. (context: of a disease) Of uncertain cause. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cryptogenic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Cryptogenic
1. Of obscure, indeterminate aetiology or origin, in contrast to phanerogenic. Origin: crypto-+ G. Genesis, origin (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cryptogenic
Literary usage of Cryptogenic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Introduction to Infectious and Parasitic Diseases: Including Their Cause and by Millard Langfeld (1907)
"In such children sores of the mouth are common, and wet-nurses have frequently
been known to contract the disease from suckling them. cryptogenic infections ..."
2. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"... The cryptogenic type of polycythemia is usually associated with general cyanosis
and a marked enlargement of the spleen ..."
3. Introduction to Infectious and Parasitic Diseases: Including Their Cause and by Millard Langfeld (1907)
"cryptogenic infections refer to those deep- cryptogenic. seated affections for
which a portal of entry cannot be found. Endocarditis (inflammation of the ..."
4. Clinical pathology of the blood: A Treatise on the General Principles and by James Ewing (1903)
"These cases showed that there is not always a cryptogenic factor in the etiology
of the disease, and that the presence of the typical blood changes does not ..."
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