neuroscience

English

Etymology

From neuro- +‎ science.

Pronunciation

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Noun

neuroscience (usually uncountable, plural neurosciences)

1. 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, […].

Derived terms

• computational neuroscience

Related terms

• bioscience, biology (largely hypernymous)
• neuroimaging
• neuroimplant
• neuromyths
• neurorights
• neuroscientist
• neurosurgery
• neurotechnology

Translations

scientific study of the nervous system

• Arabic: عُلُوم عَصَبِيَّة (ar) (ʕulūm ʕaṣabiyya), عِلْم الأَعْصَاب (ar) (ʕilm al-ʔaʕṣāb)
• Basque: neurozientzia
• Catalan: neurociència (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 神經科學 / 神经科学 (shénjīng kēxué)

• Czech: neurověda f
• Danish: neurovidenskab c
• Dutch: neurowetenschap (nl) f
• Estonian: neuroteadus (et)
• Finnish: neurotiede (fi)
• French: neuroscience (fr) f
• Georgian: ნეირომეცნიერება (neiromecniereba)
• German: Neurowissenschaften (de) pl, Hirnforschung (de)
• Greek: νευροεπιστήμη (el) f (nevroepistími)
• Hungarian: idegtudomány (hu)
• Irish: néareolaíocht f
• Italian: neuroscienza (it) f
• Japanese: 神経科学 (ja) (しんけいかがく, shinkeikagaku)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: nevrovitenskap m
• Polish: neuronauka f
• Portuguese: neurociência f
• Romanian: neuroștiință f
• Russian: нейробиоло́гия (ru) f (nejrobiológija)
• Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: neurocienca f
• Swedish: neurovetenskap (sv) c
• Thai: ประสาทวิทยาศาสตร์
• Ukrainian: нѐйробіоло́гія f
• Vietnamese: khoa học thần kinh

French

Etymology

From neuro- +‎ science.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nø.ʁɔ.sjɑ̃s/

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Noun

neuroscience f (plural neurosciences)

1. neuroscience

Further reading

• “neuroscience”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012