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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The central nervous system; the brain and spinal cord.
  • noun Same as neuraxon or axis-cylinder.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Anat.) See Axis cylinder, under axis.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun anatomy The axis of the central nervous system; i.e. the spinal cord, rhombencephalon, mesencephalon and diencephalon

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  • Lastly, neuraxial medications are drugs that are injected into the space surrounding the spinal cord neuraxis, such as epidurals and spinal blocks.

    Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010

  • Drugs that are injected into the space surrounding the spinal cord neuraxis, such as epidurals and spinal blocks.

    Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010

  • Lastly, neuraxial medications are drugs that are injected into the space surrounding the spinal cord neuraxis, such as epidurals and spinal blocks.

    Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010

  • Drugs that are injected into the space surrounding the spinal cord neuraxis, such as epidurals and spinal blocks.

    Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010

  • (Herpes Simplex Virus 3 or HHV-3)  Clinical Features VZV causes chickenpox (varicella), after which the virus becomes latent in cranial nerve, dorsal root and autonomic nervous system ganglia along the entire neuraxis.

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