perineural
adjEtymology From peri- + neural.
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Medicine, Sciences Near a nerve or nerves
- a perineural injection
- The histological diagnosis of PC is currently restricted to lesions showing unequivocal extra-parathyroidal growth, as evidenced by perineural invasion, full thickness capsular invasion with growth into adjacent tissues, extratumoral vascular invasion, or metastasis.2015 September 8, Filomena Cetani et al., “A nonfunctioning parathyroid carcinoma misdiagnosed as a follicular thyroid nodule”, in World Journal of Surgical Oncology, volume 13, →DOI:
- Derived terms
- perineurally, subperineural
- Related terms
- neural, endoneural, epineural