Nerve injuries are classified as follows: 1  A first-degree injury, or neurapraxia, will recover within days after the injury, or it may take up to three months.  A second-degree injury, or axonotmesis, also will recover completely; however, the recovery will take much longer than with a first-degree injury.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Churning. Churning is the process of shaking up cream to make butter, and various forms of butter churn have been used for the purpose. In Europe from the Middle Ages until the Industrial Revolution, this was generally as simple as a barrel with a plunger in it, which was moved by hand.
flounder1. 1  to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water. 2  to struggle clumsily or helplessly: He floundered helplessly on the first day of his new job.