| arthropathy | <rheumatology> Any disease that affects joints. Origin: Gr. Pathos = disease (11 Nov 1997) |
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| arthropathy, neurogenic | Chronic progressive degeneration of the stress-bearing portion of a joint, with bizarre hypertrophic changes at the periphery. It is probably a complication of a variety of neurologic disorders, particularly tabes dorsalis, involving loss of sensation, which leads to relaxation of supporting structures and chronic instability of the joint. (12 Dec 1998) |
| static arthropathy | Secondary involvement of a joint following disease in a joint of the same extremity; e.g., knee or ankle involvement in hip disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| neuropathic arthropathy | <radiology> M more than F, age more than 40 yrs, 6 D's, destruction, increased density, dislocation, debris, distension, disorganization, diabetic neuropathy, syphilis (tabes dorsalis), syrinx, meningomyelocele / spina bifida, nerve injury: spinal cord or peripheral nerves, congenital insensitivity to pain, leprosy, Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome (12 Dec 1998) |
| diabetic arthropathy | A neuropathic arthropathy occurring in diabetes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tabetic arthropathy | A neuropathic arthropathy that occurs with tabes dorsalis (tabetic neurosyphilis). See: neuropathic joint. Synonym: Charcot's joint. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Jaccoud's arthropathy | A rare form of chronic arthritis, reported to occur after attacks of acute rheumatic fever, characterised by an unusual form of bone erosion of the metacarpal heads and by ulnar deviation of the fingers; it resembles rheumatoid arthritis, but with less overt inflammation, and rheumatoid factor is absent. Synonym: Jaccoud's arthropathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| long-leg arthropathy | A degenerative joint disease that develops, after many years, in the knee of the longer leg of a person with unequal leg lengths. (05 Mar 2000) |