neuronophagian.
/njʊəˌrɒnəˈfeɪdʒ(ɪ)ə/, U.S. /n(j)ʊˌrɑnəˈfeɪdʒ(i)ə/ Medicine.
The phagocytosis of (damaged) neurons.
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1903 Index Medicus 1 641/1 (heading) On neuronophagia.
1932 M. Bielschowsky in W. Penfield Cytol. & Cellular Pathol. Nervous Syst. I. iv. 153 The neuroglia cells not only multiply, but some of them invade the marginal hollows and vacuoles. This process is included under the rather ill-chosen name of neuronophagia.
1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 11 Jan. 89/1 The classic virus effect on the neural cells is cell lysis, giving the pathological findings of cell necrosis and neuronophagia.
1987 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 2) II. xxi. 146/2 Histological examination shows unusually widespread neuronolysis and neuronophagia involving the cerebral cortex, cerebellum.., and the spinal cord.
2002 Jrnl. Compar. Pathol. 126 312 Also present were inflammatory cell infiltrates in the neural parenchyma, neuronophagia and focal gliosis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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