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
Over the last several decades, billions have been spent targeting the amyloid that clumps together to form the neuritic plaques first documented by German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer in 1906.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 25, 2021
To confirm the findings from mouse models, we also examined human brains and found that people with Alzheimer’s-associated TREM2 variants had more neuritic plaque tau.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 26, 2021
"The group on combination therapy had a very, very low load of neuritic plaques," Beeri says.
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
