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Definition of Myelopathy
1. Noun. A disorder in which the tissue of the spinal cord is diseased or damaged. ¹
2. Noun. A disturbance or disease of the spinal cord. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Myelopathy
1. [n -THIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Myelopathy
Literary usage of Myelopathy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1912)
"Following this, there is produced, respectively, a myelopathy or a hemolysis; and,
... This may be represented graphically as follows: (hemolysis—myelopathy ..."
2. Cumulative Trauma Disorders in the Workplace: Bibliography by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"... not elsewhere classified 722 Intervertébral disc disorders 722.0 Displacement
of cervical intervertebral disc without myelopathy 722.1 Displacement of ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1884)
"There is a myelopathy characterized by : (a) Paralysis and atrophy of all the
muscles ... The recognition of this form of myelopathy presents an important ..."
4. A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis by Means of Microscopic and Chemical Methods by Charles Edmund Simon (1907)
"... as the result of an "anemic" condition of the blood (secondary myelopathy),
or directly, as in disease of the bone-marrow per se (primary myelopathy). ..."
5. White and Martin's Genito-urinary surgery and venereal diseases by James William White (1918)
"When the myelopathy has advanced rapidly and deep bed-sores form in the sacral
region, the softening is generally extensive, without patches of sclerosis. ..."
6. Clinical Journal (1902)
"... namely, myopathy, to distinguish it from myelopathy, in which the spinal cord
is affected. The myopathies are distinguished by the fact that so far, ..."
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