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perineural

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Etymology

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From peri- +‎ neural.

Adjective

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perineural (not comparable)

  1. (medicine) Near a nerve or nerves
    a perineural injection
    • 2015 September 8, Filomena Cetani et al., “A nonfunctioning parathyroid carcinoma misdiagnosed as a follicular thyroid nodule”, in World Journal of Surgical Oncology[1], volume 13, →DOI:
      The histological diagnosis of PC is currently restricted to lesions showing unequivocal extra-parathyroidal growth, as evidenced by perineural invasion, full thickness capsular invasion with growth into adjacent tissues, extratumoral vascular invasion, or metastasis.

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