neuroinvasion

English

Etymology

From 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^[1], volume 287, number 5453, →DOI, pages 602–604:

     Also, neuroinvasion by SIV coincides with an increase in the number of perivascular macrophages […] .

Related terms

• neuroinvasional