neuropraxia
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Mistaken reanalysis of neurapraxia (neur- + apraxia) as if it were neuro- + *praxia; this is etymologically nonsensical because the a- in apraxia represents the negating prefix (in the New Latin original) to mean the opposite of what the unrealized form *praxia would mean.
Noun[edit]
neuropraxia (usually uncountable, plural neuropraxias)
- (medicine, pathology) Alternative form of neurapraxia.
Usage notes[edit]
Because of the inconsistent etymology, at least one major dictionary[1] marks neuropraxia as a misspelling rather than a variant. However, the form is very widely used, and at least one other major dictionary enters this form as a variant without any usage label.[2]