a. [f. Gr. αὐτο- self + παθικός pertaining to suffering.] Of or pertaining to disease inherent in a living being itself.
1881. J. Simon, in Nature, No. 616. 373. Causes of death … autopathic and exopathic. On the one hand, there is the original and inherited condition under which to every man born there is normally assigned eventual old age and death.
