neuraxis
nounUK /ˈnjʊəɹˌæksɪs/
Etymology From neur- + axis.
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Anatomy, Embryology, Medicine, Sciences 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 throughout the neuraxis.1984, Oliver Sacks, “The Disembodied Lady”, chapter 3 in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Reset 2007), page 51
- Derived terms
- neuraxial