arteriopath

English

Etymology

arterio- +‎ -path

Noun

arteriopath (plural arteriopaths)

1. (medicine) Someone suffering from arteriopathy.
   • 1940, Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson, A. Ninian Bruce, Neurology - Volume 2, page 1104:

     The arteriopath is readily fatigued by mental effort and refuses to make it; conversely, as I have had occasion to note, he may develop a peculiar sense of well-being, a physical but more often psychical feeling of euphoria, ...

   • 2010, Gordon W. Stewart, Core Clinical Medicine, →ISBN, page 101:

     The arteriopath (Table 3.1, Figure 3.1) is a very common patient in British medicine. Usually a smoker, more commonly male, he or she has widespread atheromatous disease.

   • 2011, Andrew T Raftery, Michael S. Delbridge, Marcus J. D. Wagstaff, Churchill's Pocketbook of Surgery, →ISBN:

     If a patient is poorly perfused, for example if peripherally vasoconstricted by noradrenaline administration, is in shock by whatever cause or is a diabetic or peripheral arteriopath, then the graft is less likely to establish.