nodopathy

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noun

Any peripheral neuropathy caused by changes restricted to the nodes of Ranvier and paranodal regions.

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Meanings

nounnodopathy (plural nodopathies)

plural nodopathies

  1. medicineAny peripheral neuropathy caused by changes restricted to the nodes of Ranvier and paranodal regions.

    Acute motor axonal neuropathy (AMAN), the axonal motor variant of GBS, is the prototypic nodopathy; antibodies against GM1 ganglioside—an axolemmal nodal antigen—lead to disruption of sodium channels.

    2020, Michal Vytopil, Ted M. Burns, Michelle Mauermann, Jayashri Srinivasan, “Acquired Polyneuropathies”, in Jayashri Srinivasan, Claudia J. Chaves, Brian J. Scott, Juan E. Small, editors, Netter's Neurology, 3rd edition, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 665

Origin

From node + -o- + -pathy.

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