acropathy

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noun

Any disease specific to the extremities.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounacropathy (plural acropathies)

plural acropathies

  1. Any disease specific to the extremities.

    Of patients with pretibial myxedema, only 7% develop acropathy.

    2001, Thomas T. Provost, John A. Flynn, Cutaneous Medicine, →ISBN
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    Kahane himself, however, finally gives as his own opinion that it should be ranked among the acropathies, which he defines as those affections which are localized in the peripheral parts of the limbs and as the ultimate basis of which are assumed lesions of a vasomotor nature.

    1908, Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences

    Patients with Graves' disease infrequently have acropathy consisting of digital "drumstick" clubbing of fingers or toes and subperiosteal newborn formation.

    1992, Samuel L. Moschella, Harry J. Hurley, Dermatology - Volume 2, page 1591

Origin

Translations

Catalan acropatia
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