perineuraladj.
/ˌpɛrᵻˈnjʊərəl/, /ˌpɛrᵻˈnjʊərl̩/, U.S. /ˌpɛrəˈn(j)ʊrəl/ Anatomy and Medicine.
Situated or occurring around a nerve or a bundle of nerve fibres.
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perineural1874
perineurial1883
perineuritic1893
1874 Philos. Trans. 1873 (Royal Soc.) 163 126 When arches can be shown me which combine the characters of ribs and visceral arches, then I will treat of them as morphological varieties; species they are..being altogether independent of the perineural axis.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 501 There is in all these cases..leucocytal infiltration of the perineural sheath.
1948 R. A. Willis Pathol. Tumours liv. 828 Masson's and Stout's names ‘Schwannoma’ and ‘neurilemmoma’, and Mallory and Penfield's name ‘perineural fibroblastoma’, express the two opposing views regarding the histogenesis of this distinctive nerve-sheath tumour.
1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 28 Mar. 736/2 Recent studies..have cast doubt on the concept of perineural lymphatics and were unable to demonstrate existence of true lymphatic channels around nerves.
2000 Amer. Jrnl. Neuroradiology 21 568 CT and MR imaging revealed perineural tumor spread along the great auricular nerve.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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