Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vasculopathy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.23 in modern English

Syllables: vas-cu-lopa-thy
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any disease of blood vessels.

Example Sentences

"Prevention of diabetic vasculopathy is generally sought by the only means at hand: Meticulous control of the diabetes."
"Pulmonary occlusive venopathy and PM are rather uncommon (fewer than 200 cases have been reported in the published data) but increasingly recognized causes of pulmonary hypertension. They could represent part of the spectrum of vasculopathies of PPH, but they are distinct from the precapillary causes of PAH."

Etymology

From vasculo- + -pathy.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: vasculo
Suffix: pathy

Inflected Forms

vasculopathies (plural)

Derived Forms

cerebrovasculopathy macrovasculopathy microvasculopathy neovasculopathy panvasculopathy retinovasculopathy vasculopathic

Questions

What does vasculopathy mean?: Any disease of blood vessels.
Where does vasculopathy come from?: From vasculo- + -pathy.

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