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This week's theme Words made using combining forms. This week's words orthography coprolite iatrogenic misoneism callipygian Today's word in Visual Thesaurus "A delightful, quirky collection" -The New York Times ISBN 978-0471230328 More reviews Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg iatrogenic PRONUNCIATION: (eye-at-ruh-JEN-ik) MEANING: adjective: Caused inadvertently by medical treatment, such as an infection or a complication. ETYMOLOGY: From iatro- (healer, medicine), from Greek iatros (healer) + -genic (producing). USAGE: "ICU care, provided to the most frail and sick patients, often results in the worst iatrogenic injuries." Sandeep Jauhar, MD; First, Do No Harm; The New York Times; Aug 10, 1999. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. -George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)

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