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neuropathy
[ noo-rop-uh-thee, nyoo- ]
noun
- any diseased condition of the nervous system.
neuropathy
/ njʊˈrɒpəθɪ; ˌnjʊərəʊˈpæθɪk /
noun
- disease of the nervous system
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Derived Forms
- neuropathic, adjective
- ˌneuroˈpathically, adverb
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Other Words From
- neu·ro·path·ic [n, oo, r-, uh, -, path, -ik, ny, oo, r-], adjective
- neuro·pathi·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of neuropathy1
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Example Sentences
She suffered nerve damage in her hands and feet, a condition known as neuropathy, from which she still suffers today.
However, the research generally points toward positive results between massage and reduced neuropathy pain.
Neuropathy is nerve damage that causes numbness and tingling in the feet and other places in the body.
If there’s pain or too much heat, neuropathy may prevent the person from feeling it and making the proper adjustments.
In consequence, “sexual storms” result in neuropaths, whether the neuropathy be inherited or acquired.
Neuropathy and an unsound, nervous organisation are often enough legacies from the nervous disorders of childhood.
This is how he states his theory of onanism as an exciting cause of inherited neuropathy, resulting in sexual inversion.
There he will find the very beginnings of things, the growing point, as it were, of all neuropathy.
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