CLAUDICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does claudication mean? 

• CLAUDICATION (noun)
  The noun CLAUDICATION has 1 sense:

1. disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet

  Familiarity information: CLAUDICATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLAUDICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

claudication; gameness; gimp; gimpiness; lameness; limping

Hypernyms ("claudication" is a kind of...):

disability of walking (a disability that interferes with or prevents walking)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "claudication"):

intermittent claudication (lameness due to pain in leg muscles because the blood supply is inadequate; pain subsides with rest)

 Context examples 

Clinical signs include impotence, intermittent claudication, diminished femoral pulses and cold, pallid lower extremities.

(Leriche Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Claudication either with exertion or at rest; 2.

(History of Peripheral Vascular Disease, NCI Thesaurus)