Avoid the misspelling/mispronunciation neuropraxia. Avoid the jargonistic use of this word in the general sense of 'nerve lesion'. The mildest type of focal nerve lesion that produces clinical deficits; localized loss of conduction along a nerve without axon degeneration; caused by a focal lesion, usually demyelinating, but occasionally ischemic (when of shorter than a few hours' duration), followed by a complete recovery.axonotmesis. [neur- + G. a- priv. + praxis, action]