neuropathy
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
neuropathy (countable and uncountable, plural neuropathies)
- (medicine) Any disease of the peripheral nervous system; peripheral neuropathy.
- Long-standing diabetes often causes neuropathy in the retinas, fingertips, and toes.
- (medicine) Any disease of the nerves and nervous system, usually and more specifically the peripheral nervous system, thus including both non-neuraxial and neuraxial instances of neural damage or dysfunction but excluding the neuraxis's psychiatric aspects (mental illnesses).
- the contribution of central neuropathy on postural impairment observed in diabetic patients with peripheral neuropathy
- insights into the underlying molecular pathogenesis of diabetes-induced CNS neuropathy
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
- neuronopathy
- neuropath
- neuropathology
- neurosis (morphologically parallel but semantically divergent)
Translations edit
disease of the nervous system
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