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Meaning of neuraxis | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/ˈnjʊəɹˌæksɪs/

Definitions

  1. Synonym of central nervous system.
    usually
  2. A subset of the central nervous system: i.e., the spinal cord, rhombencephalon, mesencephalon and diencephalon.
    sometimes

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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