epineural

1. not comparableanatomyRelated to or situated upon a nerve or nerve structure, especially on the epineurium.

   Another possibility for direct nerve repair is epineural sleeve neurorrhaphy .

   2009, Stefano Geuna, Pierluigi Tos, Bruno Battiston, Essays on Peripheral Nerve Repair and Regeneration, page 148

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   Additional one to two epineural stiches are placed between the holding stiches after completion of the fascicular repairs.

   1986, T-S Chang, S-X Zhu, Z-C Wang, Principles, Techniques And Applications In Microsurgery, page 303

   The nerve graft was implanted using epineural suture according to standard technique on both sites of the nerve graft captation.

   2015, Maria Z. Siemionow, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, page 426

2. not comparableanatomyArising from or associated with the neurapophysis of a vertebra

   Epineural bones are primitively fused to neural arches in teleosts ( Patterson and Johnson , 1995 , p . 11 ) .

   1996, Melanie L.J. Stiassny, Lynne R. Parenti, G. David Johnson, Interrelationships of Fishes, page 278

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   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.

   1896, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (volume 29), page 142

plural epineurals

1. An epineural bone

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   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.

   1996, Melanie L.J. Stiassny, Lynne R. Parenti, G. David Johnson, Interrelationships of Fishes, page 278