neuroinvasion

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noun

Invasion of the brain, especially by an infection

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Meanings

nounneuroinvasion (countable and uncountable, plural neuroinvasions)

plural neuroinvasions

  1. countableuncountablemedicineInvasion of the brain, especially by an infection

    Also, neuroinvasion by SIV coincides with an increase in the number of perivascular macrophages […].

    2000 January 28, Suzanne Gartner, “HIV Infection and Dementia”, in Science, volume 287, number 5453, →DOI, pages 602–604

Origin

From neuro- + invasion.

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