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Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura

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• Idiopathy

  A disease or medical condition of unknown origin or which has no apparent cause. As in the idiopathy of cancer. From the New Latin idiopathia (primary disease), from the Greek idiopatheia, from idio-, from idios (one’s own, personal) + -patheia, -pathy (feeling, suffering).

• Idiot savant

  Autistic savant. The term “autistic savant” is preferred to the old term “idiot savant” as less perjorative and more precise.

• IFA

  Indirect immunofluorescence assay.

• Ig

  Abbreviation for immunoglobulin, a protein produced by plasma cells and lymphocytes. Immunoglobulins are an essential part of the body’s immune system which attach to foreign substances, such as bacteria, and assist in destroying them. The classes of immunoglobulins are immunoglobulin A (IgA), immunoglobulin G (IgG), immunoglobulin M (IgM), immunoglobulin D (IgD) and immunoglobulin E (IgE).

• IgA

  Immunoglobulin A, an antibody.

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