NEUROPATHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neuropathy mean? 

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

1. any pathology of the peripheral nerves

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEUROPATHY (noun)

Meaning:

Any pathology of the peripheral nerves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

pathology (any deviation from a healthy or normal condition)

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

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease; hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy (a form of neuropathy that can begin between childhood and young adulthood; characterized by weakness and atrophy of the muscles of the hands and lower legs; progression is slow and individuals affected can have a normal life span; inheritance is X-linked recessive or X-linked dominant)

mononeuropathy (any neuropathy of a single nerve trunk)

multiple mononeuropathy (pathology of several individual nerve trunks)