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.
These forms are equivalent to kata in karate. 1  Hyeong (sometimes romanized as hyung) is the term usually used in traditional taekwondo (i.e., 1950sâ1960s styles of Korean martial arts). 2  Poomsae (sometimes romanized as pumsae or poomse) is the term officially used by Kukkiwon/WT-style and ATA-style taekwondo.