Meanings
- pluralrareplural of neuron
1998, June 1st: Warner S. Bloomberg, alt.gathering.rainbow (Google group): Yes. Love. (was Rainbow’s Views…), 8:00am To be rendered impotent by sadness that cripples is allowing revenge to seep into one’s own neura (sic: nerves).
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1905: Eugene Solomon Talbot, Developmental Pathology, pages 7⁽¹⁾ and 8⁽²⁾ ⁽¹⁾ Some investigations have shown that the slightest injuries to nerve cells or neura will give rise to easily demonstrable degenerative lesions in other parts of the cell. ⁽²⁾ Certain groups of neura are more susceptible than others to a given toxication.
In Wollenberg’s opinion the primary type of disease of the sensory neura in tabes is of this kind.
1913: Eugene Solomon Talbot, Interstitial Gingivitis and Pyorrhœa Alveolaris, page 273 (Ransom & Randolph Co.)
Origin
- Ancient Greekνεῦρα
- Englishneura
From the Ancient Greek νεῦρα (neûra), the nominative plural form of νεῦρον (neûron), whence neuron.
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neura. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/neura
“neura.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/neura. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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