nigra
- n (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person
- In ten or 15 years, he predicts, as these addicts continue to lose substantia nigra cells as part of the normal aging process, California may become the scene of a Parkinson's .
- Until now, however, that audacity has been limited to illnesses that attack narrowly circumscribed parts of the brain: the substantia nigra, for example, whose destruction causes .
- But the book picks up whenever Jones gets back to his snapshots of Company G: two Southerners laboriously discussing when a "nigra" is good or bad; men so purposeless that they .