arthropathy

[ahr-throp-uh-thee]

noun

1. disease of the joints.

Other Word Forms

• arthropathic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of arthropathy¹

First recorded in 1875–80; arthro- + -pathy

Example Sentences

She also had neuropathic arthropathy - Charcot's joint - which weakened the bones in her legs and feet and meant she had to use a wheelchair.

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It has always seemed to me to be clearly a nervous arthropathy, as the lesions are almost without exception more or less symmetrically distributed.

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Bodies composed of Organised Connective Tissue.—These are comparatively common in joints that are already the seat of some chronic disease, such as arthritis deformans, Charcot's arthropathy, or synovial tuberculosis.

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No history of alcohol, tubercle, brain trouble, or of the arthropathies.

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Treatment, in addition to that of the nerve lesion underlying the arthropathy, consists in supporting and protecting the joint by means of bandages, splints, and other apparatus.

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