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tendinopathy

tendinopathy noun: a disorder of the tendons.

Noun

tendinopathy (countable and uncountable, plural tendinopathies)

  1. A disorder of the tendons.
    • When I read that tendinopathy is thought to be slow to heal, in part because blood flow to tendons is limited, I decided that I was already doing something that might help.2009 August 20, Gina Kolata, “One Injured Hamstring, a String of Treatments”, in New York Times

Forms of tendinopathy

pluraltendinopathies

Origin of tendinopathy

Comparable to surface analyses of tendon + -o- + -pathy and tendo- + -pathy but not thus formed; see more at tendinitis § Etymology.

Words formed from tendinopathy

Questions about tendinopathy

What does tendinopathy mean?
Tendinopathy means a disorder of the tendons.
What part of speech is tendinopathy?
Tendinopathy is a noun.
What is the plural of tendinopathy?
The plural of tendinopathy is tendinopathies.

Words near tendinopathy in the dictionary

  1. tendinocytes
  2. tendinomuscular
  3. tendinopathic
  4. tendinopathies
  5. tendinopathogenesis
  6. tendinopathy
  7. tendinosi
  8. tendinosis
  9. tendinosus
  10. tendinous
  11. tendinously

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