CRYOPATHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cryopathy mean? 

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

1. destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRYOPATHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

cryopathy; frostbite

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

harm; hurt; injury; trauma (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)

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

immersion foot; trench foot (resembling frostbite but without freezing; resulting from exposure to cold and wet)