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.
Many have tried to give a Chinese origin to Kenpo Karate, but the fact is, Kenpo is a Japanese/Chinese art. The word Kenpo is Japanese (not Chinese) and is loosely translated as Fist Law. However, Kenpo in Japanese refers to a Chinese root. Karate on the other hand is purely a Japanese word that means Empty Hand. Karate also shows a Chinese origin as kara in Japanese means both empty and China. The two words Kenpo - Karate together would be, as Ed Parker used it, Law of the Fist and Empty Hand.