English dictionary: words starting with neuro - page 5

adverb

Strangely or in a worried and nervous way, often because you have a mental illness

Usage examples:

He became neurotically jealous of her work life., she kept looking neurotically over her shoulder.

noun

The condition of often feeling worried and nervous, often because of a mental illness

Usage examples:

Researchers found that high levels of neuroticism were linked to lower life expectancy.

verb

To make neurotic.

noun

A neurotic person.

Usage examples:

I wasn't going to be labelled as a hypochondriac or neurotic

adjective

Having, caused by, or relating to neurosis.

Usage examples:

Thus, by putting the patient in contact with his phantasy world, psychoanalysis offers a special se…

noun

Regeneration of a severed or damaged nerve; (also) spontaneous regrowth or surgical provision of nerve in an area of tissue; reinnervation.

noun

= neuromere .

noun

The surgical cutting of a nerve to produce sensory loss and relief of pain or to suppress involuntary movements.

Usage examples:

A facet neurotomy involves destroying the nerves that relay pain messages from the facet joints.

adjective

Poisonous to the nervous system.

Usage examples:

Neurotoxic pesticides

noun

A poison which acts on the nervous system.

Usage examples:

Once the bacteria are in the body, they produce a neurotoxin (a protein that acts as a poison to th…

noun

The transmission of nerve impulses between neurons or between a neuron and a muscle fibre or other structure.

Usage examples:

Alterations of neurotransmission that affect consciousness and behaviour

noun

A chemical substance which is released at the end of a nerve fibre by the arrival of a nerve impulse and, by diffusing across the synapse or junction, effects the transfer of the impulse to another nerve fibre, a muscle fibre, or some other structure.

Usage examples:

Cnidarians contain chemical synapses and release neurotransmitters, including biogenic amines and p…

noun

A chemical substance which is released at the end of a nerve fibre by the arrival of a nerve impulse and, by diffusing across the synapse or junction, effects the transfer of the impulse to another nerve fibre, a muscle fibre, or some other structure.

Usage examples:

Cnidarians contain chemical synapses and release neurotransmitters, including biogenic amines and p…

adjective

Relating to the growth of nervous tissue.

Usage examples:

Our study provides the first evidence of a strong increase of neurotrophic factors and receptors in…

noun

Originally: nutrition of nervous tissue (rare). later: = neurotrophism .

adjective

(of a virus, toxin, or chemical) tending to attack or affect the nervous system preferentially.

Usage examples:

Jc virus, a human neurotropic polyomavirus, is the etiologic infectious agent of this disease.

adjective

Containing neural and vascular structures.