Word.ws English Dictionary

neuropophysis

neuropophysis is the misconstruction of neurapophysis.

Meaning of neurapophysis

Noun

neurapophysis (plural neurapophyses)

  1. The structure that forms the neural arch of a vertebra.

Origin of neuropophysis

By the same mistaken rebracketing that produces *neurosthenia and *neuropraxia.

Questions about neuropophysis

What is neuropophysis the misconstruction of?
Neuropophysis is the misconstruction of neurapophysis.

Words near neuropophysis in the dictionary

  1. neuropoiesis
  2. neuropoietic
  3. neuropoietin
  4. neuropolitical
  5. neuropolitics
  6. neuropophysis
  7. neuropore
  8. neuropores
  9. neuropragmatics
  10. neuropraxia
  11. neuropraxias

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: neuropophysis (page history and authors); neurapophysis (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “neuropophysis.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/neuropophysis. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.