nodopathy

English

Etymology

From node +‎ -o- +‎ -pathy.

Noun

nodopathy (plural nodopathies)

1. (pathology, neurology) Any peripheral neuropathy caused by changes restricted to the nodes of Ranvier and paranodal regions.
   • 2020, Michal Vytopil, Ted M. Burns, Michelle Mauermann, Jayashri Srinivasan, “Acquired Polyneuropathies”, in Jayashri Srinivasan, Claudia J. Chaves, Brian J. Scott, Juan E. Small, editors, Netter's Neurology, 3rd edition, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 665:

     Acute motor axonal neuropathy (AMAN), the axonal motor variant of GBS, is the prototypic nodopathy; antibodies against GM1 ganglioside—an axolemmal nodal antigen—lead to disruption of sodium channels.

Related terms

• paranodopathy