iatrogenic

1. 1.

   induced by a physician's words or therapy (used especially of a complication resulting from treatment)

   Similarinduced

   medicine

Questions about iatrogenic

What does iatrogenic mean?

iatrogenic means "induced by a physician's words or therapy (used especially of a complication resulting from treatment)".

How many syllables are in iatrogenic?

iatrogenic has 5 syllables and divides as i-a-tro-ge-nic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is iatrogenic a common word?

iatrogenic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.