neur-
var. of neuro-, employed before vowels (and h), as in neuradyˈnamia, nervous debility, neurasthenia; neuradyˈnamic a., of or pertaining to, of the nature of, suffering from, neurasthenia (Mayne 1856). neuˈranal a., pertaining to the neural system together with the anus or outlet. neurarˈthropathy, disease of the joints in which the nerves are affected. neuˈraxial a., pertaining to the neuraxis. neuˈraxis, the nervous axis of the body; the brain and spinal column. neuˈraxon, a process given off from a cell-body (neuron). neuˈrectasy, stretching of a nerve. neurhypˈnology (see neurypnology). neurˈhypnotist, one who practises neurypnology.
Also in various other pathological or anatomical terms, as neuragmia, neur-arteria, neur-ataxia, neur-ectopy, neur-empodism, etc.: see Mayne Expos. Lex. and the Syd. Soc. Lex.
| 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 184/1 A current of water which escaped by the *neuranal canal (as in larval Amphioxus). |
| 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 73 The word *neur-arthropathy conveniently represents this class of arthritic cases. |
| 1889 Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. VIII. 108 The impossibility of determining the exact limits of these two *neuraxial regions. |
| 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 512 The..unaltered continuity of the primitive fibrils of the *neuraxon across the ‘cell body’. |
| 1883 J. Marshall (title) On Nerve-Stretching or *Neurectasy for the Relief of Pain. |
| a 1876 M. Collins Pen Sketches (1879) II. 182 That peculiar idiosyncrasy which gives us our mediums, and mesmerists, and *neurhypnotists. |