Myelopathy myo-lop-a-thee. Myel ['spinal cord'] opathy ['problem'] is a disease of the spinal cord. This can be distingiushed from a radiculopathy or neuropathy based on the symptoms and findings during a doctors examination. Myelopathy is therefore a descriptive term and many different disease processes can cause it.
Taekwondo is a martial art that was developed by the Koreans with tactical preferences for kicks over hands (although both are included), while Karate is a Japanese development of hand fighting which was refined in Okinawa, and likely brought there from early hand fighting in China.
Taekwondo (RP: /ËtaÉª kwÉn ËdoÊ/ ty-kwon-DOH or /ËtaÉª ËkwÉn doÊ/ ty-KWON-doh, US: /ËtaÉª kwÉËn ËdoÊ/ ty-kwahn-DOH; from Korean taegwondo ( listen)) is a Korean martial art, characterized by its emphasis on head-height kicks, jumping and spinning kicks, and fast kicking techniques.