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Definition of "neurofilament" [neurofilament]

  • Any of the long, fine threads that make up a neurofibril. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "neurofilament" in a sentence
  • "Furthermore, Dr. Kinsbourne did not suggest that neurofilament testing would be helpful or useful in detecting neuroinflammation."
  • "ASD, and tried to tie Colin's neurofilament test results to that opinion, but those results were performed by an unreliable laboratory."
  • "Consistent with this, an inverse correlation between CD99 expression and H-neurofilament expression, neural differentiation, and oncogenic transformation was observed in patient-derived EWS cells."