microangiopathyn.
/ˌmʌɪkrəʊan(d)ʒɪˈɒpəθi/, U.S. /ˈˌmaɪkroʊˌændʒiˈɑpəθi/ Medicine.
Disease affecting small blood vessels; any of various forms of such disease.
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angioneurosis1869
angioblastoma1890
vasomotion1900
haemangioblastoma1928
microangiopathy1952
1952 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 25 Oct. 902/2 Thrombotic microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia (thrombotic microangiopathy) is the name proposed for an unusual disease..commonly referred to as thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura.
1977 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 70 693/1 The proposed causes for this increase in capillary permeability in idiopathic oedema include the action of bradykinins..or a microangiopathy akin to that found in diabetes mellitus.
1997 Arch. Neurol. (Chicago) 54 1276/2 There are significant differences in stroke patterns between patients with and without hyperhomocysteinemia, with a higher rate of lesions typical of cerebral microangiopathy and a trend to multiple infarctions in the former.
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ˌmicroangioˈpathic adj.
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1952 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 25 Oct. 902/2 Thrombotic microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia (thrombotic microangiopathy) is the name proposed for..thrombocytopenic purpura.
1990 Internat. Immunol. 2 1089/1 (title) Lyme arthritis spirochetes found in synovial microangiopathic lesions.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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