单词 | neurapraxia |
释义 | neurapraxian. Neurology. Transient dysfunction of a nerve, typically seen as muscle weakness or paralysis with subjective sensory disturbance, caused by a focal, minor injury to the nerve; an instance of this. Cf. neurotmesis n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > other injuries mischance1587 wringing1611 moonblow1851 industrial injury1855 beat elbow1905 pole-wound1908 boo-boo1932 neurapraxia1942 neurotmesis1942 owie1967 1942 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 29 Aug. 237/2 It was..suggested by Prof. Henry Cohen that distinctive names should be given to these three types of nerve injury... He writes:..‘3. Neurapraxia..is used to describe those cases in which there is a short-lived paralysis—so short that recovery could not possibly be explained in terms of true regeneration’. 1957 J. C. Adams Outl. Fractures i. 24 The lesion may be a neurapraxia or an axonotmesis. 1977 Amer. Jrnl. Sports Med. 5 209 Cervical nerve pinch syndrome, a neurapraxia of the brachial plexus, is a common occurrence in contact football. 1999 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) May 72 I'm subject to what's called neurapraxia—damage to the nerves. Derivatives neuraˈpraxic adj. ΚΠ 1974 Canad. Jrnl. Neurol. Sci. 1 170 (title) The neurapraxic lesion: a clinical contribution to the study of trophic mechanisms. 2001 Jrnl. Neurosurg. 95 1001 In the intact nerve, convective delivery of vehicle generated only a transient neurapraxic deficit. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1942 |
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