Genuine

Genuine (from Latin genus-rod), natural, authentic, a term used in pathology to characterize primarily arising pathological processes, as opposed to those developing secondarily. Genuine epilepsy, for example, is epilepsy that arises independently, on a constitutional basis, without visible causes, in contrast to symptomatic epilepsy, which is caused by skull trauma, pressure from bone fragments on the brain, etc. Genuine contracted kidney, or genuine nephrosclerosis - is the primary shrinking of the kidney depending on the focal development of connective tissue and the death of parenchyma on the basis of sclerosis of renal vessels, in contrast to the secondarily contracted kidney, which develops as a result of preceding nephritis or nephrosis. Genuine hypertension is a primary increase in blood pressure, also without visible causes, in contrast to secondary hypertensions, associated, for example, with nephrosclerosis (see Hypertension). Genuine epilepsy, see Epilepsy.