neuritis
noun
inflammation of a nerve.
neuritic
-
a word derived from
neuritis.
Example Sentences
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Researchers evaluated three major features associated with Alzheimer's disease: amyloid-beta plaques, tau tangles, and neuritic plaques, which are amyloid plaques surrounded by damaged nerve cells.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
This form is known as neuritic plaque tau.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 26, 2021
If so, dangerous TREM2 mutations such as R47H might exacerbate Alzheimer’s pathology by making it easier for neuritic plaque tau to develop near amyloid plaques.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 26, 2021
Acute neuritic pains of rheumatism often cease after fever treatment.
From Time Magazine Archive
The amputation of a portion of a leg, for instance, may relieve, to some extent, an overburdened heart and prove life-saving to the patient, but the neuritic pains are not necessarily relieved.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
