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CLAUDICATION

Dictionary entry overview: What does claudication mean?

• CLAUDICATION (noun)
The noun CLAUDICATION has 1 sense:

1. disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet

Familiarity information: CLAUDICATION used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CLAUDICATION (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

claudication; gameness; gimp; gimpiness; lameness; limping

Hypernyms ("claudication" is a kind of...):

disability of walking (a disability that interferes with or prevents walking)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "claudication"):

intermittent claudication (lameness due to pain in leg muscles because the blood supply is inadequate; pain subsides with rest)

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