neuraxis

== English == === Etymology === From neur- +‎ axis. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈnjʊəɹˌæksɪs/ === Noun === neuraxis (plural neuraxes) (anatomy, medicine, usually) Synonym of central nervous system. (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 (or almost purely) sensory neuritis, affecting the sensory roots of spinal and cranial nerves throughout the neuraxis. ==== Derived terms ==== neuraxial === Further reading === neuraxis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia