path-, patho-, -path-, -pathia, -pathic, -pathology, -pathetic, -pathize, -pathy +

(Greek: feeling, sensation, perception; suffering, disease, disorder; a system of treatment of disease)

In medicine, some of these elements usually mean “one who suffers from a disease of, or one who treats a disease”; so, they should not be confused with the “feeling” words which are also shown on these pages.


rachiopathy
1. Any disease or disorder of the spine.
2. Any disorder of the vertebrae.
radiculomyelopathy
Disease of the spinal cord and spinal nerve roots. Also known as myeloradiculopathy.
radiculoneuropathy
Disease of the spinal nerve roots and nerves.
radiculopathy
1. Disease of spinal nerve roots.
2. A type of pain felt in the extremities (most commonly the arms or legs) along the course of spinal nerve roots.

Inflammation or compression of the spinal nerve from conditions; such as, stenosis or a herniated disc can trigger radicular pain.

If a cervical condition is causing radiculopathy; for example, cervical stenosis, it can cause arm, neck, and shoulder pain.

If a lumbar condition is the cause; that is, a lumbar herniated disc, it can cause leg pain and sciatica or pain that results from irritation of the sciatic nerve which is the largest nerve in the body that begins in the lumbar spinal cord in the lower back (sacrum) and extends through the buttocks area, sending nerve endings down through the legs and knees.

renopathy
A rarely used term for nephropathy, a disease of the kidneys.
retinopathy
1. Any disease of the retina.
2. A noninflammatory degenerative disease of the retina.
rhinopathy, rhinopathia
Any disease of the nose.
sociopathic
A reference to antisocial behavior or to antisocial personality disorders.
somatopathy
Any disease of the body.
somnipathy
1. Sleep from sympathy (a reference to the influence exerted by one individual upon another, or received by one from another, and the effects thus produced, as seen in hypnotism, and in yawning) or by the process of mesmerism.
2. A state of sleep induced by hypnosis or mesmerism.
3. Disturbance of sleep; any disorder of sleep.
spermatopathy
Any disease of the semen or spermatozoa.
splanchnopathy
Any disease process of the abdominal viscera.
splenopathy
Any disease of the spleen.
spondylopathy
Any disease of the vertebrae or spinal column.
stereopathy
Persistent stereotyped thinking (maintenance of one attitude for a long time; constant repetition of certain meaningless gestures or movements, as in certain forms of schizophrenia).


Quiz You can find self-scoring quizzes over many of the words in this subject area by going to this Vocabulary Quizzes page.
Related-word units meaning feeling: aesth-; senso-; pass-.


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