NEUROLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neurology mean? 

• NEUROLOGY (noun)
  The noun NEUROLOGY has 2 senses:

1. the branch of medical science that deals with the nervous system

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

  Familiarity information: NEUROLOGY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEUROLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of medical science that deals with the nervous system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

medical science (the science of dealing with the maintenance of health and the prevention and treatment of disease)

Domain member category:

mass-action principle; mass action ((neurology) the principle that the cortex of the brain operates as a coordinated system with large masses of neural tissue involved in all complex functioning)

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

refractory period ((neurology) the time after a neuron fires or a muscle fiber contracts during which a stimulus will not evoke a response)

astrocytic (of or relating to or containing large star-shaped cells in the neuroglia)

pneumogastric; vagal (of or relating to the vagus nerve)

Derivation:

neurologic; neurological (of or relating to or used in or practicing neurology)

neurologist (a medical specialist in the nervous system and the disorders affecting it)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

clinical neurology; neurology

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

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

Domain category:

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

Derivation:

neurologic; neurological (of or relating to or used in or practicing neurology)

neurologist (a medical specialist in the nervous system and the disorders affecting it)

 Context examples 

A branch of neurology concerned with the chemistry of the nervous system.

(Neurochemistry, NCI Thesaurus)

Neurology 1995; 45: 251-55). (Hohol MJ, Orav EJ, Weiner HL.

(Patient Determined Disease Steps Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A branch of neurology that focuses on diseases of children.

(Pediatric Neurology, NCI Thesaurus)

This is the first randomized and controlled trial ... to assess effects of exercise on brain structure, function and amyloid burden in older adults who have memory problems, thus, high risks of Alzheimer's disease, said lead author Rong Zhang, a neurology professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

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

"This is an innovative, simple and safe non-medication approach that may help improve brain health," said senior author Dr. Phyllis Zee, professor of neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Northwestern Medicine sleep specialist.

(Sound Waves Boost Older Adult' Memory, Deep Sleep, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A team led by Steven Finkbeiner, M.D., Ph.D., director and senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, and professor of neurology and physiology at the University of California, San Francisco, explored whether computers could be trained to identify structures in unstained cells.

(Scientists teach computers how to analyze brain cells, National Institutes of Health)

A research team led by David Sulzer, Ph.D., professor of neurology at Columbia University in New York City and Alessandro Sette, Dr.Biol.Sci., professor of infectious diseases at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology in California, examined the role of T cells in Parkinson’s disease (PD).

(Immune system may mount an attack in Parkinson’s disease, National Institutes of Health)

Intracerebral hemorrhage is a damaging and often fatal form of stroke for which there are no effective medicines, said Jaroslaw Aronowski, M.D., Ph.D., professor, department of neurology, at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and senior author of the study.

(Immune cells may heal bleeding brain after strokes, National Institutes of Health)