NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neurophysiology mean? 

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

1. the branch of neuroscience that studies the physiology of the nervous system

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEUROPHYSIOLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of neuroscience that studies the physiology of the nervous system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

physiology (the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms)

neuroscience (the scientific study of the nervous system)

Domain member category:

all-or-none law ((neurophysiology) a nerve impulse resulting from a weak stimulus is just as strong as a nerve impulse resulting from a strong stimulus)

brain wave; brainwave; cortical potential ((neurophysiology) rapid fluctuations of voltage between parts of the cerebral cortex that are detectable with an electroencephalograph)

facilitation ((neurophysiology) phenomenon that occurs when two or more neural impulses that alone are not enough to trigger a response in a neuron combine to trigger an action potential)

Derivation:

neurophysiological (of or concerned with neurophysiology)