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tauopathy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
tauopa-thy
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a class of neurodegenerative diseases associated with the pathological aggregation of tau protein.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From tau + -o- + -pathy.

Usage

Inflected Forms

tauopathies (plural) taupathy (alternative)

Derived Forms

tauopathic taupathological taupathology

Questions

What does tauopathy mean?
Any of a class of neurodegenerative diseases associated with the pathological aggregation of tau protein.
Where does tauopathy come from?
From tau + -o- + -pathy.

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