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One who is destitute of feeling.

Apathetic; une motional. [R.]

ing ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion. "The apathy of despair." Macaulay. A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to take their own course. Prescott. According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascend…

Any disease of the joints.

n, or due or relating to, the structure and characteristics of the diseased organism; endopathic; as, an autopathic disease; an autopathic theory of diseases.

A private path; an obscure way; indirect means. God known, my son, By what bypaths, and indirect crooked ways, I met this crown. Shak.

Of or pertaining to a range of mountains in Austro-Hungary, called the Carpathians, which partially inclose Hungary on the north, east, and south.

A hypochondriacal condition verging upon insanity, occurring in those whose brains have been unduly taxed; -- called also brain fag.

A disease in which the body is colored blue in its surface, arising usually from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood; blue jaundice.

Of or pertaining to skin diseases, or their cure.

Dermatopathic.

A sympathetic affection of any part of the body, as headache from an overloaded stomach.

Pertaining to deuteropathy; of the nature of deuteropathy.

Lack of sympathy; want of passion; apathy. [R.] Many discrepancies and some dispathies between us. Southey.

Lack of sympathy; want of interest; indifference. [R.]

A morbid condition characterized by automatic and purposeless repetition of words or imitation of actions.

The treatment of disease by electricity.

Serving to palliate; palliative. Dunglison.

Allopathy; -- a term used by followers of Hahnemann, or homeopathists.

Any disease or symptoms of disease referable to disorders of the brain; as, lead encephalopathy, the cerebral symptoms attending chronic lead poisoning.