neurapraxian.
/ˌnjʊərəˈpraksɪə/, U.S. /ˌn(j)ʊrəˈpræksiə/; see also neuro- comb. form. 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.
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neurapraxia1942
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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.
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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).
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