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Neurobiology

Definition: Neurobiology

Neurobiology

Noun

1. The branch of biology that deals with the anatomy and physiology and pathology of the nervous system.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "neurobiology" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)

Synonym by domain: neurobiology of fear (medicine).

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Crosswords: Neurobiology

English words defined with "neurobiology": neurobiological, neurobiologist. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Neurobiology

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Integrative Neurobiology of Affiliation (Annals of the New York Academy of Science, Vol 807) (reference)

  • Axonal Transport (Neurology and Neurobiology, Vol 25) (reference)

  • Marijuana/Cannabinoids: Neurobiology and Neurophysiology (CRC Series in Physiology of Drug Abuse) (reference)

  • The Benzamides : pharmacology, neurobiology, and clinical aspects (reference)

  • Neurobiology of Comparative Cognition (Roitblat Bever Olton Series) (reference)

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Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Neurobiology

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

The application or development of new research techniques should provide added understanding of the neurobiology of sleep and its disorders. (references)

NICHD supports research related to AD primarily through its programs involving neurobiology and mental retardation and developmental disabilities. (references)

Similarities between guidance molecules in mammals and those in simple organisms like worms and fruitflies are speeding progress in this area of neurobiology. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Neurobiology

"Neurobiology" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Neurobiology" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%11106,044

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Neurobiology

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

neurobiology

72

lab neurobiology

12

neurobiology journal

7

neurobiology of aging

6

language neurobiology

4

addiction neurobiology

3

international review of neurobiology

3

depression neurobiology

2

cellular and molecular neurobiology

2

molecular neurobiology

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Neurobiology

Language Translations for "neurobiology"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

neurobiologie de la peur (neurobiology of fear). (various references)

   

German

  

Neurobiologie der Angst (neurobiology of fear). (various references)

   

Italian

  

neurobiologia della paura (neurobiology of fear). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eurobiologynay

   

Spanish

  

neurobiología. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

нейробіологія. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Neurobiology

Misspellings

"Neurobiology" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: neurobiologies. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Neurobiology

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-g-i-l-n-o-o-o-r-u-y"

-3 letters: neurology.

-4 letters: boringly, bourgeon, oenology, oinology, rebuying.

-5 letters: belying, biogeny, biology, blueing, blunger, boloney, borneol, brulyie, bulgier, bungler, buoying, burgeon, burling, burying, byliner, byrling, enology, guyline, ignoble, ignobly, loonier, lounger, louring, neology, obeying, obliger, obligor, orogeny, orology, relying, rubying, urology, younger.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Neurobiology


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 65 75 72 6F 62 69 6F 6C 6F 67 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01100101 01110101 01110010 01101111 01100010 01101001 01101111 01101100 01101111 01100111 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0065 0075 0072 006F 0062 0069 006F 006C 006F 0067 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

487187848168758178817391

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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