NEUROBIOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neurobiology mean? 

• NEUROBIOLOGY (noun)
  The noun NEUROBIOLOGY has 1 sense:

1. the branch of biology that deals with the anatomy and physiology and pathology of the nervous system

  Familiarity information: NEUROBIOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEUROBIOLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of biology that deals with the anatomy and physiology and pathology of the nervous system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("neurobiology" is a kind of...):

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "neurobiology"):

neuroscience (the scientific study of the nervous system)

Derivation:

neurobiological (of or relating to the biological study of the nervous system)

neurobiologist (a specialist in neurobiology)

 Context examples 

The branch of neurobiology that tries to understand the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the nervous system by understanding the way that genes, proteins, and molecules interact.

(Molecular Neurobiology, NCI Thesaurus)

The branch of neurobiology concerned with the changes that take place in the nervous system between fertilization and maturity.

(Developmental Neurobiology, NCI Thesaurus)

We saw the most remarkable growth when we closed the good eye, forcing the mice to look through the injured eye,” said Andrew Huberman, Ph.D., associate professor, Stanford University School of Medicine’s department of neurobiology.###!!!###

(Visual activity regenerates neural connections between eye and brain, NIH)