myelopathy
1
9.9
- noun
- /ˌmaɪəˈlɒpəθi/
- Specialized
- After her diagnosis of myelopathy, she started a treatment plan focusing on physical therapy to improve her mobility.
Examples
-
While living in California, Trakr was diagnosed with degenerative myelopathy, which is a neurological disease.
Blog text (12) -
The doctor explained that myelopathy is a disease affecting the spinal cord and can lead to weakness in the limbs.
-
Soon afterward, however, it was recognized in Japan; and since Japan is not a tropical country, it was renamed HTLV-I-associated myelopathy, or HAM.
Academic text (1993) -
Compressive myelopathy of the thoracic cord may present shoulder, cardiothoracic, abdominal, and pelvic symptoms.
Academic text (2007) -
The authors concluded that the poorer outcomes observed among the uninsured were primarily due to the uninsured patients being significantly more likely to have a nonelective hospital admission and present with myelopathy.
Blog text (13) -
Symptoms of myelopathy may include numbness in the legs and difficulty walking due to spinal cord damage.
Synonyms
1
9.9
Swelling of the spinal cord that causes pain, weakness, or paralysis
Surface Forms
Morphology
myelopathy = myelo (opaque) = myelo + pathy
The term is built from specialist medical combining forms ('myelo-' + '-pathy') that are unlikely to be understood by an average B1 learner.
Etymology
The word myelopathy comes from myelo- meaning 'marrow' and -pathy meaning 'disease'. In medicine myelo- is often used for the 'spinal cord', so myelopathy means a disease of the spinal cord.