neuro-, neur-, neuri-, -neuroma, -neurotic, -neurosis, -neuron, -neural, -neuria

(Greek: nerve, tendon, sinew, cord)


radiculoneuropathy
Disease of the spinal nerve roots and nerves.
rhinoneurosis
A neurosis or functional disease of the nose.
septineuritis
1. Neuritis due to sepsis.
2. A generalized, diffuse neuritis of the entire nervous system due to the multiplication and migration of viruses in nervous tissue; for example, that which may occur with rabies.
sociotherapy
Any treatment with major emphasis on the socioenvironmental and interpersonal factors that affect adjustment; such as, milieu (environment, surroundings) therapy or as is used in a therapeutic community.
spironeuron
A nerve filament which, contacting the base of hair cells in the organ of Corti (the hearing organ of the inner ear and contains receptors which respond to sound waves), then take a spiral course along the basilar membrane before entering the spinal ganglion.

The basilar membrane is a thin layer of tissue which is covered with mesothelial (flattened cells) which separates the cochlea from the scala (canals) tympani in the ear.

The cochlea is that part of the internal ear which is concerned with hearing.

sympathogonioma, neuroblastoma
A leading childhood form of cancer that arises in the adrenal gland or in tissue in the nervous system that is related to the adrenal gland.

It is considered to be the most common solid tumor outside the brain in infants and children.

synneurosis
teleneuron
thermoneurosis
1. An elevation of the temperature of the body due to neurosis as seen sometimes in hysteria.
2. Pyrexia of vasomotor origin.
toponeurosis
trophodermatoneurosis
Cutaneous trophic changes due to neural involvement.
trophoneurosis
1. A trophic disorder (a functional disease of a part due to failure of nutrition from defective nerve action in the parts involved) of a part or region resulting from disease or injury to nerves enervating the area.
2. A trophic disorder, such as atrophy, hypertrophy, or a skin eruption, occurring as a consequence of disease or injury of the nerves of the part.
trophoneurotic
Of, relating to, constituting, or affected by a trophoneurosis.
trophoneurotic atrophy
Abnormalities of the skin, hair, nails, subcutaneous tissues and bone, caused by peripheral nerve lesions.
vasoneuropathy
1. Any disease involving both the nerves and blood vessels.
2. A combined vascular and neurologic defect, the lesions being caused by simultaneous action of both the vascular and the nervous systems, or by the interaction of the two systems.

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