arthropathy
nounEtymology From arthro- + -pathy.
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Medicine, Sciences Any of several diseases of a joint.
- The papers specifically devoted to paleopathology were additionally classified […] according to the principal class of disease upon which they are focused (arthropathy, congenital/developmental, dental disease, general (where the focus is on more than one type of disease), infection, metabolic disease, neoplastic disease, non-specific stress, trauma).2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 21: