neuropraxia

Questions

What does neuropraxia mean?

Alternative form of neurapraxia.

Where does neuropraxia come from?

Mistaken reanalysis of neurapraxia (neur- + apraxia) as if it were neuro- + *praxia; this is etymologically nonsensical because the a- in apraxia represents the negating prefix (in the New Latin original) to mean the opposite of what the unrealized form *praxia would mean.

How to pronounce neuropraxia

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