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epineural

epineural adjective: related to or situated upon a nerve or nerve structure, especially on the epineurium.

Adjective

epineural (not comparable)

  1. Related to or situated upon a nerve or nerve structure, especially on the epineurium.
    • Additional one to two epineural stiches are placed between the holding stiches after completion of the fascicular repairs.1986, T-S Chang, S-X Zhu, Z-C Wang, Principles, Techniques And Applications In Microsurgery, page 303
    • Another possibility for direct nerve repair is epineural sleeve neurorrhaphy .2009, Stefano Geuna, Pierluigi Tos, Bruno Battiston, Essays on Peripheral Nerve Repair and Regeneration, page 148
  2. Arising from or associated with the neurapophysis of a vertebra
    • Thus it is clear that these investigators regarded the hyponeural canal as being connected with the anterior part of what we now know to be the radial epineural canal and the epineural ring canal.1896, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (volume 29), page 142
    • Epineural bones are primitively fused to neural arches in teleosts ( Patterson and Johnson , 1995 , p . 11 ) .1996, Melanie L.J. Stiassny, Lynne R. Parenti, G. David Johnson, Interrelationships of Fishes, page 278

Noun

epineural (plural epineurals)

  1. An epineural bone
    • With more extensive sampling, we now find that ANA occurs in all osmerid and salangid genera and in Aplochiton alone among southern osmeroids; in platytroctid alepocephaloids; and among alepocephalids in Alepocephalus, Bathylaco, Bathytroctes, and Talismania (where it may carry an epineural); but...1996, Melanie L.J. Stiassny, Lynne R. Parenti, G. David Johnson, Interrelationships of Fishes, page 278

Forms of epineural

pluralepineurals

Origin of epineural

From epi- + neural.

Words formed from epineural

Questions about epineural

What does epineural mean?
Epineural means related to or situated upon a nerve or nerve structure, especially on the epineurium.
What part of speech is epineural?
Epineural can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near epineural in the dictionary

  1. epinephrine
  2. epinephrines
  3. epinephritis
  4. epinetra
  5. epinetron
  6. epineural
  7. epineurally
  8. epineurals
  9. epineurectomy
  10. epineuria
  11. epineurial

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