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neuraxes

neuraxes is the plural of neuraxis.

Meaning of neuraxis

Noun

neuraxis (plural neuraxes)

  1. (usually) Synonym of central nervous system.
  2. (sometimes) A subset of the central nervous system: i.e., the spinal cord, rhombencephalon, mesencephalon and diencephalon.
    • The picture revealed by spinal tap was one of an acute polyneuritis, but a polyneuritis of a most exceptional type: not like Guillian–Barré syndrome, with its overwhelming motor involvement, but a purely (or almost purely) sensory neuritis, affecting the sensory roots of spinal and cranial nerves...1984, Oliver Sacks, “The Disembodied Lady”, chapter 3 in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Reset 2007), page 51

Questions about neuraxes

What is neuraxes the plural of?
Neuraxes is the plural of neuraxis.

Words near neuraxes in the dictionary

  1. Neurath
  2. Neurath's boat
  3. Neurathian
  4. neuration
  5. neurations
  6. neuraxes
  7. neuraxial
  8. neuraxially
  9. neuraxin
  10. neuraxis
  11. neuraxon

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