NEUROLOGIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neurologist mean? 

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

1. a medical specialist in the nervous system and the disorders affecting it

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEUROLOGIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A medical specialist in the nervous system and the disorders affecting it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

brain doctor; neurologist

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

medical specialist; specialist (practices one branch of medicine)

Instance hyponyms:

Charcot; Jean Martin Charcot (French neurologist who tried to use hypnotism to cure hysteria (1825-1893))

Cushing; Harvery Williams Cushing; Harvey Cushing (United States neurologist noted for his study of the brain and pituitary gland and who identified Cushing's syndrome (1869-1939))

Freud; Sigmund Freud (Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis (1856-1939))

Baron Richard von Krafft-Ebing; Krafft-Ebing; Richard von Krafft-Ebing (German neurologist noted for his studies of sexual deviance (1840-1902))

Georges Gilles de la Tourette; Gilles de la Tourette; Tourette (French neurologist (1857-1904))

Karl Wernicke; Wernicke (German neurologist best known for his studies of aphasia (1848-1905))

Thomas Willis; Willis (English physician who was a pioneer in the study of the brain (1621-1675))

Derivation:

neurology ((neurology) the branch of medicine that deals with the nervous system and its disorders)

neurology (the branch of medical science that deals with the nervous system)

 Context examples 

The second in a series of neurologists that are performing an assessment.

(Neurologist 2, NCI Thesaurus)

A neurologist performing the assessment that is given the designation of two.

(Neurologist 2, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A neurologist performing the assessment that is given the designation of one.

(Neurologist 1, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The first in a series of neurologists that are performing an assessment.

(Neurologist 1, NCI Thesaurus)

In this study, speech scientists and neurologists from University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) recreated many vocal sounds with varying accuracy using brain signals recorded from epilepsy patients with normal speaking abilities.

(Scientists translate brain signals into speech sounds, National Institutes of Health)

The key positive finding is that the exercise intervention specifically reduced shrinkage of the memory center in the brain in people with the earliest symptomatic stage of Alzheimer's disease, said neurologist Dr. Richard Isaacson.

(Aerobic Exercise Slows Cognitive Decline in Adults at Risk of Alzheimer's, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)