User:Anthonyhcole/Radiculopathy

Webster's New World Medical Dictionary:
 * Any disease of the spinal nerve roots or spinal nerves. Radiculopathy is characterized by pain that seems to radiate from the spine, extending outward to cause symptoms away from the source of the spinal nerve root irritation. Causes of radiculopathy include deformities of the discs between the vertebrae. Patients with diabetes can be affected by a form of radiculopathy that may be caused by inadequate blood supply to the spinal nerve roots. Also known as radiculitis.

''Field Guide to the Neurologic Examination:
 * Any cause of nerve root dysfunction which can occur due to a structural (compressive) process or nonstructural (noncompressive) process.
 * Structural causes of radiculopathy include any process that causes mechanical compression of nerve roots, such as herniated discs (most common in the cervical and lumbar spine), degenerative disease of the spine (e.g., spondylosis), or tumor.
 * Nonstructural causes of radiculopathy include diabetic radiculopathy, which likely occurs due to infarction of a nerve root (most commonly affecting the thoracic or lumbar nerve roots), or Herpes zoster, which causes radiculopathy due to viral-mediated inflammation of a nerve root.

Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary:
 * Any disease of a nerve root

Black's Medical Dictionary
 * Damage to the roots of nerves where they enter or leave the spinal cord. ... Symptoms include pain, paraesthesia, numbness and wasting of muscles supplied by the nerves.

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary
 * Disease of the nerve roots such as from inflammation or impingement by a tumor or a bony spur