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neuraxis

noun
/ˈnjʊəɹˌæksɪs/UK

Etymology

From neur- + axis.

  1. derived from *h₂eḱs-✻
  2. borrowed from axis — “axle, axis”
  3. prefixed as neuraxis — “neur + axis”

Definitions

  1. Synonym of central nervous system.

  2. A subset of the central nervous system

    A subset of the central nervous system: i.e., the spinal cord, rhombencephalon, mesencephalon and diencephalon.

The neighborhood

Derived

neuraxial

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for neuraxis. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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