neuropath
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
neuropath (plural neuropaths)
- (medicine, dated) A person with neuropathy, perhaps also including (in outdated nosology) a neurosis: someone who has, or is predisposed to, some disease of the nervous system.
- (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.
Usage notes[edit]
Both senses of the word are outdated, as patients are no longer labeled as if their diseases were their identities (just as a person with syphilis is no longer called a luetic [n.]), and no neuropathologist or neurologist today is called a neuropath in English.