tendinopathy

English

Etymology

Comparable to surface analyses of tendon +‎ -o- +‎ -pathy and tendo- +‎ -pathy but not thus formed; see more at tendinitis § Etymology.

Noun

tendinopathy (countable and uncountable, plural tendinopathies)

1. (pathology) A disorder of the tendons.
   • 2009 August 20, Gina Kolata, “One Injured Hamstring, a String of Treatments”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     When I read that tendinopathy is thought to be slow to heal, in part because blood flow to tendons is limited, I decided that I was already doing something that might help.

Hypernyms

• arthropathy

Hyponyms

• tendinitis
• tendinosis
• enthesopathy

Coordinate terms

• synoviopathy
• bursopathy

Derived terms

• tendinopathic
• tendinopathogenesis

Translations

a disorder of the tendons

• Italian: tendinopatia