neuroinvasion

English

Etymology

neuro- +‎ invasion

Noun

neuroinvasion (countable and uncountable, plural neuroinvasions)

  1. (medicine) Invasion of the brain, especially by an infection
    • 2000 January 28, Suzanne Gartner, “HIV Infection and Dementia”, in Science‎, volume 287, number 5453, →DOI, pages 602–604:
      Also, neuroinvasion by SIV coincides with an increase in the number of perivascular macrophages […] .
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