different between neuraxis vs neuraxin

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neur- +? axis

neuraxis (plural neuraxes)

(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.

neuraxin (uncountable)

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