neuraxisとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

neur- +‎ axis

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈnjʊəɹˌæksɪs/

名詞

neuraxis (複数形 neuraxes)

1. (anatomy, medicine, usually) Synonym of central nervous system.
2. (anatomy, embryology, medicine, sometimes) A subset of the central nervous system: i.e., the spinal cord, rhombencephalon, mesencephalon and diencephalon.
   • 1984, Oliver Sacks, “The Disembodied Lady”, chapter 3 in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Reset 2007), page 51:

     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 (または almost purely) sensory neuritis, affecting the sensory roots of spinal and cranial nerves throughout the neuraxis.

派生語

• neuraxial

Further reading

• neuraxis on Wikipedia.