neuro-, neur-, neuri-, -neuroma, -neurotic, -neurosis, -neuron, -neural, -neuria
(Greek: nerve, tendon, sinew, cord)
hysterical neurosis
A form of neurosis in which there is an involuntary disturbance or loss of psychogenic origin of motor, sensory, or mental function.
Characteristically, the symptoms begin and end suddenly in situations which are emotionally charged and which are symbolic of underlying, usually repressed conflicts; frequently the symptoms can be modified by suggestions.
idioneural
Peculiar to nerve tissue.
keraunoneurosis
A term for traumatic neuroses associated with electric shocks.
kinesioneurosis
laloneurosis
Nervous speech disorder.
laloneurosis (spasmodic)
Stuttering as a result of a central nervous-system disease.
libidoneurosis
logoneurosis
1. Any neurosis marked by speech disorders.
2. Neurosis associated with a speech defect.
mononeuralgia
Pain along the course of one nerve.
myxoneuroma
1. A tumor composed of mucous and nerve tissue elements.
2. A neurilemoma, meningioma, or glioma in which the stroma is myxomatous (gelatinous or mucus tissue) in nature.
nematoneurose
nematoneurous
nerve fibril, neurofibril
1. A delicate fibril found in the cell body and processes of a neuron.
2. One of the delicate threads running in every direction through the cytoplasm of a nerve cell, extending into the axon and dendrites (receptive surfaces of a neuron).
neurad
neuraleptanesthesia, neuroleptanesthetic
A state of altered consciousness produced by a combination of one or more neuroleptic drugs with an anesthetic, allowing certain surgical procedures to be carried out on a patient who is awake, or conscious.
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