Arteriopath

Quick meaning: Arteriopath is a noun meaning (medicine) Someone suffering from arteriopathy.

Meaning

(medicine) Someone suffering from arteriopathy.

Example Sentences

The arteriopath (Table 3.1, Figure 3.1) is a very common patient in British medicine. Usually a smoker, more commonly male, he or she has widespread atheromatous disease.

The arteriopath is readily fatigued by mental effort and refuses to make it; conversely, as I have had occasion to note, he may develop a peculiar sense of well-being, a physical but more often psychical feeling of euphoria, .

If a patient is poorly perfused, for example if peripherally vasoconstricted by noradrenaline administration, is in shock by whatever cause or is a diabetic or peripheral arteriopath, then the graft is less likely to establish.

Word Forms

• arteriopaths

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include arteriopathy, arteriolopathy, arteriosclerotic, arteritis, arteriospasm, periarteritis.

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