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neuropraxia

neuropraxia is the alternative form of neurapraxia.

Meaning of neurapraxia

Noun

neurapraxia (plural neurapraxias)

  1. The least severe form of nerve injury, in which the structure of the nerve remains intact, but there is an interruption in conduction of the impulse down the nerve fiber.

Forms of neuropraxia

pluralneuropraxias

Origin of neuropraxia

Mistaken reanalysis of neurapraxia (neur- + apraxia) as if it were neuro- + *praxia; this is etymologically nonsensical because the a- in apraxia represents the negating prefix (in the New Latin original) to mean the opposite of what the unrealized form *praxia would mean.

Questions about neuropraxia

What is neuropraxia the alternative form of?
Neuropraxia is the alternative form of neurapraxia.

Words near neuropraxia in the dictionary

  1. neuropolitics
  2. neuropophysis
  3. neuropore
  4. neuropores
  5. neuropragmatics
  6. neuropraxia
  7. neuropraxias
  8. neuropraxic
  9. neuropraxies
  10. neuropraxy
  11. neuroprecursor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: neuropraxia (page history and authors); neurapraxia (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.

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