Disorder involving a single nerve. ... Mononeuropathy multiplex, inflammation of several nerves usually in unrelated portions of the body. ... (05 Mar 2000) ... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20973
(mon″o-ndbobr-rop´ә-the) neuropathy affecting a single nerve. multiple mononeuropathy that affecting several individual nerves that are remote from one another. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001
Mononeuropathy: A disorder of a single nerve or nerve trunk. Mononeuropathies may be due to entrapment, compression, stretch injury, ischemia, infection, or inflammation of a nerve. The most common entrapments are of the median nerve of the wrist (the carpal tunnel syndrome) and ulnar nerve of the elbow (the cubital tunnel syndrome). In the lower e... Found on http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=39988