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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

perineural en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der. Ancient Greek περῐ́ (perĭ́)der. English peri- English neural English perineural From peri- + neural.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Near a nerve or nerves
    • a perineural injection
    • The histological diagnosis of PC is currently restricted to lesions showing unequivocal extra-parathyroidal growth, as evidenced by perineural invasion, full thickness capsular invasion with growth into adjacent tissues, extratumoral vascular invasion, or metastasis. 2015 September 8, Filomena Cetani et al., “A nonfunctioning parathyroid carcinoma misdiagnosed as a follicular thyroid nodule”, in World Journal of Surgical Oncology, volume 13, →DOI:

Deriveds

subperineural · perineurally

Relateds

endoneural · neural · epineural