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Specialty that involves the brain and spinal cord
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neurology
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Word definitions for neurology in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The branch of medicine that deals with the disorders of nervous system including the brain and spinal cord of the central nervous system and the nerves, muscles, and neuromuscular junction of the peripheral nervous system.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the branch of medical science that deals with the nervous system and its disorders (neurology) the branch of medicine that deals with the nervous system and its disorders [syn: clinical neurology ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Neurology \Neu*rol"o*gy\, n. [Neuro- + -logy.] The branch of science which treats of the nervous system.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"scientific study of the nervous system," 1680s, from Modern Latin neurologia , from Modern Greek neurologia (1660s), from neuro- (see neuro- ) + -logia "study" (see -logy ). Related: Neurological .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Completeness of the study sample was evaluated by scrutiny of neurology outpatient and general hospital records. ▪ Each of these students has to be taught neurology in a hospital department that has fewer than 100 beds. ▪ He ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Neurology (from , neuron , and the suffix -logia "study of") is a branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the nervous system . Neurology deals with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the central and peripheral ...
Usage examples of neurology.
Indeed, the entire history of neurology and neuropsychology can be seen as a history of the investigation of the left hemisphere.
I must confess to being especially intrigued by these disorders, for they open realms, or promise realms, scarcely imagined before, pointing to an open and more spacious neurology and psychology, excitingly different from the rather rigid and mechanical neurology of the past.
This wall of paintings was a tragic pathological exhibit, which belonged to neurology, not art.
And if we wonder how such an absurdity can arise, we find it in the assumptions, or the evolution, of neurology itself.
Thus we are forced to move from a neurology of function to a neurology of action, of life.
It was well recognised and extensively reported in the closing years of the last century, for these were years of a spacious neurology which did not hesitate to conjoin the organic and the psychic.
They are for a systematic and scientific neurology, reduced to fixed tests and tasks, not for an open, naturalistic neurology.
Such cases are exciting and precious, for they serve as a bridge between the physical and personal, and they will point, if we let them, to the neurology of the future, a neurology of living experience.
Amfortas could walk there from his home in two minutes, and that morning he arrived at the fourth floor neurology wing at precisely half past seven.
He rode the elevator up to Neurology and stepped off into quiet chaos.
He turned and went back inside the hospital, returning at last to the neurology wing where he started to question possible witnesses.
Kinderman arrived at the neurology desk, a cluster of nurses were gathered around as Atkins and the Chief of Staff, Doctor Tench, stood head to head in a confrontation.
The detective went to the neurology charge desk and spoke to the nurse on duty, Jane Hargaden.
When she arrived he went back to the neurology wing and looked for Atkins.
As it happens, the University of Florida in Gainesville is home to a world-renowned neurology department.