neuropath

From neuro- +‎ -path.

• enPR: n(y)o͝or′ə-păth′
• (contemporary Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈn(j)ʊə̯.əˌpaθ/, /ˈn(j)ɔː.əˌpaθ/

  (conservative Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈn(j)ʊə̯.əˌpæθ/, /ˈn(j)ɔː.əˌpæθ/

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈn(j)ʊɹ.əˌpæθ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈn(j)ʊə̯.əˌpæθ/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈn(j)ʉ(ː)ə̯.əˌpɛθ/, /ˈn(j)oː.əˌpɛθ/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈn(j)ʉɹ.əˌpaθ/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈn(j)uwə̯ʳ.oˌpat̪/, /ˈn(j)oːʳ.oˌpat̪/, /ˈn(j)uːɾ.oˌpat̪/

• Rhymes: -ʊɹəpæθ
• Hyphenation: neu‧ro‧path

neuropath (plural neuropaths)

1. (medicine, dated) A person with neuropathy, perhaps also including (in outdated nosology) a neurosis: someone who has, or is predisposed to, some disease of the nervous system.
2. (medicine, historical) A physician with specialization in neuropathy, corresponding to today's specialties of neuropathologist or neurologist: one who focuses on nervous conditions in pathology.

Both senses of the word are outdated, as patients are no longer labeled as if their diseases were their identities, just as a person with syphilis is no longer called luetic (noun); and no neuropathologist or neurologist today is called a neuropath in English.