English

Noun

neuraxis ‎(plural neuraxes)

1. (anatomy) The axis of the central nervous system; i.e. the spinal cord, rhombencephalon, mesencephalon and diencephalon.
   • 1984, Oliver Sacks, “The Disembodied Lady”, chapter 3 in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Reset 2007), page 51:

     The picture revealed by spinal tap was one of an acute polyneuritis, but a polyneuritis of a most exceptional type: not like Guillian–Barré syndrome, with its overwhelming motor involvement, but a purely (or almost purely) sensory neuritis, affecting the sensory roots of spinal and cranial nerves throughout the neuraxis.