neuroscience
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neuroscience (usually uncountable, plural neurosciences)
- The scientific study of the nervous system.
- Hypernym: science
- Meronym: brain science
- Coordinate terms: neurology, neuropsychology, psychology, psychiatry (nonsynonymous as academic and clinical fields)
- Near-synonym: neurobiology
- 2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 27 April 2017, page 171:
- Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work. The achievement will transform neuroscience and serve as the starting point for asking questions we could not otherwise have answered, […].
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scientific study of the nervous system
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French
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neuroscience f (plural neurosciences)
Further reading
- “neuroscience”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.