deuteropathy
(djuːtəˈrɒpəθɪ)
[f. deutero- + Gr. -πάθεια suffering: cf. -pathy.]
† 1. gen. A being affected at second hand. Obs.
| 1647 H. More Song of Soul Notes 161/1 Deuteropathie, Δευτεροπάθεια, is a being affected at second rebound, as I may so say. We see the sunne not so properly by sympathie as deuteropathie. Ibid. 163/2 If the air be struck aloof of, I am sensible also of that but by circulation or propagation of that impression into my eare; and this is Deuteropathy. 1650 Charleton Paradoxes 60 The body also cannot but submit to compassion and deuteropathy. |
2. Med. A secondary affection, sympathetic with or consequent upon another, that is, ‘where the second part suffers from the influence of the part originally affected’. Syd. Soc. Lex.
| 1651 Biggs New Disp. ¶248 Whether or no there be a Deuteropathy or consent of the head with the part wounded. [1657 G. Starkey Helmont's Vind. 128 The Gout properly..is an Arthritical pain affecting the joynts immediately, and some nerves sometimes by a Deuteropatheia.] 1669 W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 88 Either by a deuteropathy..or by an idiopathy. |
Hence deuteroˈpathic a., of or pertaining to deuteropathy.