neuropathy

English

Etymology

From neuro- +‎ -pathy.

Noun

neuropathy (countable and uncountable, plural neuropathies)

1. (medicine) Any disease of the peripheral nervous system; peripheral neuropathy.

   Long-standing diabetes often causes neuropathy in the retinas, fingertips, and toes.

2. (medicine) Any disease of the nerves and nervous system, usually and more specifically the peripheral nervous system, thus including both non-neuraxial and neuraxial instances of neural damage or dysfunction but excluding the neuraxis's psychiatric aspects (mental illnesses).

   the contribution of central neuropathy on postural impairment observed in diabetic patients with peripheral neuropathy

   insights into the underlying molecular pathogenesis of diabetes-induced CNS neuropathy

Derived terms

• encephaloneuropathy
• Navajo neuropathy
• neuropathic
• radiculoneuropathy

Related terms

• neuronopathy
• neuropath
• neuropathology
• neurosis (morphologically parallel but semantically divergent)

Translations

disease of the nervous system

• Bulgarian: нервно заболяване n (nervno zaboljavane)
• Catalan: neuropatia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 神經病變 / 神经病变 (shénjīng bìngbiàn)

• Czech: neuropatie f
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: neuropathie (nl) f
• Finnish: hermosairaus, neuropatia (fi)
• German: Nervenleiden (de) n, Neuropathie (de) f
• Hungarian: neuropátia, idegbántalom, ideggyengeség (hu), idegbetegség (hu), idegbaj (hu) (in increasing order of informality and looseness)
• Irish: néarapaite f
• Portuguese: neuropatia f
• Russian: невропа́тия (ru) f (nevropátija)
• Spanish: neuropatía (es) f