myopathy Path.
(maɪˈɒpəθɪ)
[ad. mod.L. myopathi-a: see myo- + -pathy.]
Disease of the muscles. Hence myoˈpathic a.
| 1849 Craig, Myopathy, a morbid condition of the muscles. 1856 Mayne Expos. Lex., Myopathicus,..of or belonging to Myopathia: myopathic. 1877 tr. von Ziemssen's Cycl. Med. XVI. 86 All the maladies included in the group of rheumatic myopathies. 1880 A. Flint Princ. Med. 770 A myopathic paralysis. 1897 [see neuro-pathic]. |