'vasculopathy' originates from New Latin and Greek, specifically from Latin 'vasculum' (a diminutive of 'vas') where 'vascul-' meant 'vessel', and Greek 'pathos' where 'path-' meant 'suffering' or 'disease'.

'vasculopathy' changed from the New Latin medical formation 'vasculopathia' and eventually became the modern English word 'vasculopathy'.

Initially, it meant 'disease of vessels' in medical Latin, and this meaning has largely been retained in modern usage as 'a disorder of blood vessels'.