nodopathy
English
Etymology
From node + -o- + -pathy.
Noun
nodopathy (plural nodopathies)
- (pathology, neurology) Any peripheral neuropathy caused by changes restricted to the nodes of Ranvier and paranodal regions.
- 2020, Michal Vytopil, Ted M. Burns, Michelle Mauermann, Jayashri Srinivasan, “Acquired Polyneuropathies”, in Jayashri Srinivasan, Claudia J. Chaves, Brian J. Scott, Juan E. Small, editors, Netter's Neurology, 3rd edition, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 665:
- Acute motor axonal neuropathy (AMAN), the axonal motor variant of GBS, is the prototypic nodopathy; antibodies against GM1 ganglioside—an axolemmal nodal antigen—lead to disruption of sodium channels.
-
Related terms
- paranodopathy