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Of unknown or undetermined origin or cause; (Medicine) = cryptogenic, adj. 1.
Medicine. Of unknown or undetermined origin or cause.
Of unknown or undetermined origin, cause, or ancestry; (Medicine) = cryptogenic, adj. 1 Cf. cryptogenous, adj.
Of unknown origin or aetiology; cryptogenic; idiopathic.