Epineural
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 An epineural bone
"With more extensive sampling, we now find that ANA occurs in all osmerid and salangid genera and in Aplochiton alone among southern osmeroids; in platytroctid alepocephaloids; and among alepocephalids in Alepocephalus, Bathylaco, Bathytroctes, and Talismania (where it may carry an epineural); but it is absent in Bajacalifornia, Leptochilichtyts, Leptoderma, Photostylus, Rinoctes, and Rouleina."
- 1 Related to or situated upon a nerve or nerve structure, especially on the epineurium. not-comparable
"Additional one to two epineural stiches are placed between the holding stiches after completion of the fascicular repairs."
- 2 Arising from or associated with the neurapophysis of a vertebra not-comparable
"Thus it is clear that these investigators regarded the hyponeural canal as being connected with the anterior part of what we now know to be the radial epineural canal and the epineural ring canal."
Example
More examples"Additional one to two epineural stiches are placed between the holding stiches after completion of the fascicular repairs."
Etymology
From epi- + neural.
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