idiopathic
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She had drunk some wine but had a heart and lung condition called idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension.
From BBC
Miller has undergone two spinal surgeries — vertebral body tethering — to correct idiopathic scoliosis.
From New York Times
The medical word for such diseases is “idiopathic”: conditions whose symptoms can be described but that have no known cause.
From New York Times
On the other hand, there are many suffering from these diseases whose cases cannot be attributed to a specific cause—the definition of “idiopathic.”
From Scientific American
In 2003, the Food and Drug Administration approved use of recombinant human growth hormone for the condition known as “idiopathic short stature,” or short stature of unknown cause, which is not a disease.
From New York Times
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