A nervous disorder or disease affecting the extremities of the body, causing weakness, numbness, or dysfunction in the hands, feet, or fingers.
From acron (Greek akron peak) combined with neurosis from Greek neuron (nerve) and -osis (condition), describing nerve conditions at body extremities.
Before modern medicine had better names, acroneurosis described mysterious nerve problems in your hands and feet—conditions we now call peripheral neuropathy.
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