neuropathology

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noun

Neural pathology: The pathology of the nervous system, usually and especially in the sense of its cytopathology and histopathology (as opposed to the study of diseases generally).

“Alzheimer-type neuropathology”

UncommonScrabble 23

Meanings

nounneuropathology (countable and uncountable, plural neuropathologies)

plural neuropathologies

  1. countableuncountableNeural pathology: The pathology of the nervous system, usually and especially in the sense of its cytopathology and histopathology (as opposed to the study of diseases generally).

    Alzheimer-type neuropathology

    1 more example

    the department of neuropathology

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)neh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*snéh₁wr̥
  3. Ancient Greekνεῦρον (neûron)
  4. Ancient Greekνευρο- (neuro-)
  5. Englishneuro-
  6. Ancient Greekπάσχω (páskhō)
  7. Ancient Greekπᾰ́θος (pắthos)
  8. Proto-Indo-European*leǵ-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*lóǵos
  10. Proto-Hellenic*lógos
  11. Ancient Greekλόγος (lógos)
  12. Frenchpathologie
  13. Englishpathology
  14. Englishneuropathology

From neuro- + pathology.

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Translations

Dutch neuropathologie
  • neuropathologiepathology of the nervous system
Greek νευροπαθολογία
  • νευροπαθολογία (nevropathología)pathology of the nervous system
Italian neuropatologia
  • neuropatologiapathology of the nervous system
Spanish neuropatología
  • neuropatologíapathology of the nervous system
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APA

neuropathology. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/neuropathology

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Chicago

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