neurology

noun

neu·​rol·​o·​gy nu̇-ˈrä-lə-jē 

nyu̇-

: a branch of medicine concerned especially with the structure, function, and diseases of the nervous system

neurological

ˌnu̇r-ə-ˈlä-ji-kəl 

ˌnyu̇r-

adjective

or neurologic

ˌnu̇r-ə-ˈlä-jik 

ˌnyu̇r-

neurologically

ˌnu̇r-ə-ˈlä-ji-k(ə-)lē 

ˌnyu̇r-

adverb

Examples of neurology in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Collis has launched multiple blockbuster brands in the US, EU, China, and Japan, in specialty and rare disease areas such as CNS/neurology, GI, women's health, cancer pain, neuropathic pain, and hospital/acute pain. —Kansas City Star, 18 Apr. 2024

Making health a priority Better sleep means better rizz (as her kids would call it), said Dr. Rachel Salas, professor of neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. —Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 10 Apr. 2024

Therapies in Stiff-Person Syndrome: Advances and Future Prospects Based on Disease Pathophysiology BMC neurology. —Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024

Actively managing your migraines may make your triggers less impactful, says Mason Dyess, DO, a general neurology and headache medicine physician at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans. —Colleen Stinchcombe, Health, 17 Jan. 2024

Women and racial and ethnic minorities are 20% to 30% more likely than white men to experience a misdiagnosis, said Dr. David Newman-Toker, a professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the lead author of the BMJ study. —Liz Szabo | Kff Health News, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2024

Pedro Pinheiro-Chagas, an assistant professor of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, thinks these could instead be concept neurons, which are located in the medial temporal lobe and are each linked to specific concepts. —Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023

Check with the psychology, psychiatry, or neurology departments. —Suzie Glassman, Parents, 15 Mar. 2024

Quantitative clinical and autoimmune assessments in stiff person syndrome: evidence for a progressive disorder Annals of clinical and translational neurology. —Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024

Word History

Etymology

neuro- + -logy

Note: Earlier in the senses "anatomy of the nerves, description of the nervous system," probably taken from the neo-Greek coinage neurología (in the genitive neurologías), introduced by the English physician Thomas Willis (1621-75) in Cerebri anatome, cui accessit nervorum descriptio et usus (London, 1664), p. 235.

First Known Use

circa 1681, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

neurology

noun

neu·​rol·​o·​gy n(y)u̇-ˈräl-ə-jē 

: the scientific study of the nervous system

neurological

ˌn(y)u̇r-ə-ˈläj-i-kəl 

adjective

or neurologic

-ˈläj-ik 

Medical Definition

neurology

noun

neu·​rol·​o·​gy -jē 

: a branch of medicine concerned especially with the structure, function, and diseases of the nervous system