Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A disease or abnormality of the nervous system.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In pathology, a general term for disease of the nervous system.
Wiktionary
- n. pathology Any disease of the peripheral nervous system.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) An affection of the nervous system or of a nerve.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any pathology of the peripheral nerves
Examples
“After the surgery, he began feeling numbness and tingling in his feet, a condition, known as neuropathy, that is a potential side effect after back surgery.”
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“Any time I hear the word neuropathy I think vitamin B12 deficiency.”
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“For example, how many concussions are sufficient to cause long-term neuropathy like CTE (although research suggests the number may be quite small)?”
“A lot of diabetics have a condition called neuropathy which means they cannot feel an area well on their body usually their feet/lower legs.”
“And she went to the Neurology Center, where she worked, and they, at -- at first, diagnosed ulnar neuropathy, which is a pinched nerve, basically.”
“The official diagnosis is neuropathy, which is also associated with exposure to Agent Orange by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.”
“These problems most often occur when there is nerve damage, also called neuropathy, which results in the loss of feeling in your feet, the American Diabetes Association said on its website.”
“Doctors can predict which diabetic patients may come down with the nerve condition called neuropathy by measuring their triglycerides, according to new research.”
“Neuropathic pain can occur as the result of such conditions as shingles, cancer, phantom limb pain, the phenomenon known as entrapment neuropathy -in which a nerve is pinched (as occurs in carpal tunnel or chronic back pain syndromes) - and peripheral neuropathy, which is common among diabetics.”
“And loss of sensation in the feet, called neuropathy, makes patients slow to notice even small wounds that rapidly can turn gangrenous.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘neuropathy’.
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Drugs
Takes 12-15 years and $800 million to bring a drug to the market. For every 10,000 compounds that go through animal studies, 10 will go to human trials (3 phases) to get 1 to the market.
In g...ephedrine, penicillin, librium, tetracycline, xenobiotic, teratogenic, labile sites, cholinergic, prostaglandin, patient compliance, GABA, barbiturates and 72 more...
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-pathy
denoting feelings; denoting disorder; relating to curative treatment
hydropathy, neuropathy, sympathy, antipathy, empathy, apathy, psychopathy
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Keeping Secrets
Words of 10 letters, all different, can be used for encrypting, pretty securely, such things as PINs and passwords. The fly in the ointment, for me, in keeping track of them is I've got to write '...
lumberjack, birthplace, whiskeybar, vanquished, metaphysic, precaution, quizmaster, dumbwaiter, thumbscrew, blacksmith, wholegrain, wanderlust and 105 more...
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tomax's Words
legerdemain, yayo, extravasation, wont, faze, coxswain, concomitant, enclave, unguent, rhabdomyolysis, effluent, puerile and 432 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
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Amysue's Words
melancholia, serendipity, insulin, syringe, lancet, neuropathy, totem, stealth, forsooth, folk, gadzooks, zeus and 5 more...
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drowsy, formulaic, intermittent, scurry, abase, unwind, confide, forensic, prolific, rummage, aplomb, subtlety and 26 more...
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