arteriopath
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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, ..."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
From arterio- + -path.