neurohistopathology

noun

The histopathology of neurons

OriginEnglish histopathology ← French pathologie ← Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) →
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Meanings

nounneurohistopathology (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe histopathology of neurons

    Unlike in control and pFS groups, the cognitive dysfunction during the Morris water maze tests was correlated with neuronal damage and astrogliosis proved by neurohistopathology in two HIE priming groups.

    2015 July 31, Jung Hye Byeon et al., “Cognitive Dysfunction and Hippocampal Damage Induced by Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury and Prolonged Febrile Convulsions in Immature Rats”, in Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society, volume 58, →DOI

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)neh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*snéh₁wr̥
  3. Ancient Greekνεῦρον (neûron)
  4. Ancient Greekνευρο- (neuro-)
  5. Englishneuro-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-
  7. Ancient Greekῐ̔στός (hĭstós)
  8. Englishhisto-
  9. Ancient Greekπάσχω (páskhō)
  10. Ancient Greekπᾰ́θος (pắthos)
  11. Proto-Indo-European*leǵ-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*lóǵos
  13. Proto-Hellenic*lógos
  14. Ancient Greekλόγος (lógos)
  15. Frenchpathologie
  16. Englishpathology
  17. Englishhistopathology
  18. Englishneurohistopathology

From neuro- + histopathology.

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