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Definition: Neurobiology |
NeurobiologyNoun1. 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). |
Crosswords: Neurobiology |
| English words defined with "neurobiology": neurobiological, neurobiologist. (references) |
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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) | ||
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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 neurobiología. (various references) нейробіологія. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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"Neurobiology" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: neurobiologies. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01110101 01110010 01101111 01100010 01101001 01101111 01101100 01101111 01100111 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e u r o b i o l o g y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0075 0072 006F 0062 0069 006F 006C 006F 0067 0079 |
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