neurology
noun
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Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 3 Aug. 2023
This provision will encourage investors and drug companies to redeploy resources away from important small-molecule drugs, many of which have been crucial to advances in neurology and oncology.
—Ted W. Love, STAT, 31 July 2023
In 1985, Sadiq moved to Galveston, for a residency in neurology at the University of Texas.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
After years of remote work, employees lack the same ability to block out distractions, hindering their ability to get things done, S. Thomas Carmichael, chair of UCLA’s department of neurology, told the Wall Street Journal.
—Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
The research was done on professional male athletes, but can guide how athletes at all levels approach the sport, Dr. Joel Salinas, an assistant professor of neurology at NYU Langone and chief medical officer of Isaac Health, an online memory clinic, told ABC News.
—Dr. Alexander Garcia, ABC News, 20 July 2023
The underlying causes of the symptoms of M.S. began to be gleaned with the work of the nineteenth-century French physician Jean-Martin Charcot, who is today considered a founder of modern neurology.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
Unlike cancer or neurology research, fields that can deliver stunning breakthroughs for ambitious young scientists, post-viral studies are moving slowly.
—Frances Stead Sellers, Anchorage Daily News, 30 May 2023
In 2015, a UC San Diego executive said the university health system hoped to lease the building’s top floor to help cement a growing neurology collaboration with Tri-City.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2023
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Word History
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.
circa 1681, in the meaning defined above
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