epineural

From epi- +‎ neural.

epineural (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Related to or situated upon a nerve or nerve structure, especially on the epineurium.
   • 1986, T-S Chang, ‎S-X Zhu, ‎Z-C Wang, Principles, Techniques And Applications In Microsurgery, page 303:

     Additional one to two epineural stiches are placed between the holding stiches after completion of the fascicular repairs.

   • 2009, Stefano Geuna, ‎Pierluigi Tos, ‎Bruno Battiston, Essays on Peripheral Nerve Repair and Regeneration, page 148:

     Another possibility for direct nerve repair is epineural sleeve neurorrhaphy .

   • 2015, Maria Z. Siemionow, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, page 426:

     The nerve graft was implanted using epineural suture according to standard technique on both sites of the nerve graft captation.

2. (anatomy) Arising from or associated with the neurapophysis of a vertebra
   • 1896, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (volume 29), page 142:

     Thus it is clear that these investigators regarded the hyponeural canal as being connected with the anterior part of what we now know to be the radial epineural canal and the epineural ring canal.

   • 1996, Melanie L.J. Stiassny, ‎Lynne R. Parenti, ‎G. David Johnson, Interrelationships of Fishes, page 278:

     Epineural bones are primitively fused to neural arches in teleosts ( Patterson and Johnson , 1995 , p . 11 ) .

epineural (plural epineurals)

1. An epineural bone
   • 1996, Melanie L.J. Stiassny, ‎Lynne R. Parenti, ‎G. David Johnson, Interrelationships of Fishes, page 278:

     With more extensive sampling, we now find that ANA occurs in all osmerid and salangid genera and in Aplochiton alone among southern osmeroids; in platytroctid alepocephaloids; and among alepocephalids in Alepocephalus, Bathylaco, Bathytroctes, and Talismania (where it may carry an epineural); but it is absent in Bajacalifornia, Leptochilichtyts, Leptoderma, Photostylus, Rinoctes, and Rouleina.

• pure laine