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Where does “microvasculopathy” come from?

microvasculopathy (English) comes from English vasculopathy, from English pathy, from English -pathy, from English -y, from Middle English -y, from Old English -iġ, from Proto-West Germanic -g, from Proto-Germanic -gaz — -y, -ic.

microvasculopathy (English): Any disease of the small blood vessels

Definitions

  1. Any disease of the small blood vessels

Ancestry of “microvasculopathy”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishvasculopathyAny disease of blood vessels
2EnglishpathyA therapy
3English-pathysuffering, feeling; Damage to, disease of, or...
4English-yAdded to nouns and adjectives to form adjectives...
5Middle English-yDesignates an adjective, in many cases formed by...
6Old English-iġ-y, -ic
7Proto-West Germanic-gForms adjectives from nouns and verbs with a...
8Proto-Germanic-gaz-y
9Proto-Indo-European-ḱos-y, -ic
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