myopathy

1. 1.

   any pathology of the muscles that is not attributable to nerve dysfunction

   Broaderpathology

Other forms of myopathy

plural

myopathies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about myopathy

What does myopathy mean?

myopathy means "any pathology of the muscles that is not attributable to nerve dysfunction".

How many syllables are in myopathy?

myopathy has 3 syllables and divides as myo-pa-thy under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.