#initial-load-header-loader { visibility: hidden!important; } #initial-load-content { visibility: visible!important; } .expandable .expandable-control { display: none!important; } .expandable .expandable-content { display: block!important; visibility: visible!important; max-height: none!important; height: auto!important; }

neurotoxicity

[noo r-oh-tok-sis-i-tee, nyoo r-]

noun

the degree to which a substance is poisonous to nerve tissue.

Pathology. the condition resulting from exposure to a neurotoxin.

Origin of neurotoxicity

First recorded in 1945–50; neuro- + toxicity

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019