myelopathicadj.
/ˌmʌɪələ(ʊ)ˈpaθɪk/, U.S. /ˈˌmaɪəloʊˈpæθɪk/ Medicine.
1. Of, relating to, associated with, or caused by disease or dysfunction of the spinal cord (see myelopathy n. 1).
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syringomyelic1899
xanthochromatic1922
xanthochromic1952
1891 F. Taylor Man. Pract. Med. (ed. 2) 213 Muscular atrophy or amyotrophy. Myelopathic:—Disease of anterior cornua.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 83 The atrophy of muscle may be myelopathic, and have a central spinal origin.
1973 Rhode Island Med. Jrnl. 56 30/1 The myelopathic and peripheral nerve dysfunction was secondary to folic acid deficiency.
1995 Paraplegia 33 241/2 This scale distinguishes between the ascending neurological symptoms..and the increasing myelopathic symptoms.
2002 Spine 27 1168 Both multilevel corpectomy and laminoplasty reliably arrest myelopathic progression in multilevel cervical myelopathy.
2. Of, relating to, or associated with disease of the bone marrow (see myelopathy n. 2).
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1899 Medico-chirurg. Trans. 82 251 The morbid anatomy and pathology of Dr. Bradshaw's case of myelopathic albumosuria.
1904 Jrnl. Pathol. & Bacteriol. 9 174 The case..was a typical one of multiple myeloma with Bence-Jones proteid in the urine, the ‘myelopathic albuminosuria’ of Dr. T. R. Bradshaw.
1987 Hematologic Pathol. 1 99 Several large cohorts of patients treated with alkylating agents served as a means to review the clinical and pathologic features of 55 cases of myelopathic disorders that resulted.
1998 Internat. Jrnl. Occupational & Environm. Med. 40 475 All of the referred active employees (seven) were found to have completely normal bone marrows with no evidence of any myelopathic process.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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