Neuropathとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: n(y)o͝or′ə-păth′
• (contemporary Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈn(j)ʊə̯.əˌpaθ/, /ˈn(j)ɔː.əˌpaθ/

  (conservative Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈn(j)ʊə̯.əˌpæθ/, /ˈn(j)ɔː.əˌpæθ/

• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈn(j)ʊɹ.əˌpæθ/
• (Australian) IPA: /ˈn(j)ʊə̯.əˌpæθ/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈn(j)ʉ(ː)ə̯.əˌpɛθ/, /ˈn(j)oː.əˌpɛθ/
• (Scotland) IPA: /ˈn(j)ʉɹ.əˌpaθ/
• (India) IPA: /ˈn(j)uwə̯ʳ.oˌpat̪/, /ˈn(j)oːʳ.oˌpat̪/, /ˈn(j)uːɾ.oˌpat̪/
• 韻: -ʊɹəpæθ
• ハイフネーション: neu‧ro‧path

名詞

neuropath (plural neuropaths)

1. (medicine, dated) A person with neuropathy, perhaps also including (in outdated nosology) a neurosis: someone who has, or is predisposed to, some disease of the nervous system.
2. (medicine, historical) A physician with specialization in neuropathy, corresponding to today's specialties of neuropathologist or neurologist: one who focuses on nervous conditions in pathology.

使用する際の注意点

Both senses of the word are outdated, as patients are no longer labeled as if their diseases were their identities, just as a person with syphilis is no longer called luetic (noun); and no neuropathologist or neurologist today is called a neuropath in English.