neural
The all-purpose adjective for anything to do with nerves, and one that quietly differs from neuronal in what it takes in.
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144 matchesneurobehavioral
The bridge word between neurology and psychiatry, covering changes in conduct and mood that trace back to the brain itself.
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A doctor who never meets the patient, yet whose reading of a few slides can settle a diagnosis nothing else can settle.
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Neuroradiologists interpret imaging of the brain, spine, and nervous system and often perform minimally invasive procedures guided by those same images.
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In biology, refers to viruses that do not kill infected cells by disrupting their plasma membranes.
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Licensing sits with the state, so what one nurse practitioner may do alone differs from what another may do elsewhere.
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Major medical bodies classify obesity as a chronic disease, because the body actively defends an enlarged fat store rather than simply holding surplus weight.
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OCT is an imaging technique that uses light waves to produce cross-sectional pictures of tissue, most familiar as a routine eye exam of the retina.
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Ophthalmic describes anything relating to the eye, including its anatomy, diseases, examinations, and medications formulated for eye use.
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Oral describes anything relating to the mouth, including its anatomy, medications taken by swallowing, and examinations of the mouth and throat.
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A biology word that shrinks in the clinic, where the organism almost always means whatever has grown in the culture bottle.
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In biology, to make too many copies of a protein or other substance.
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Biology recognizes several ways two species can live together, and what makes a relationship parasitic is that only one side benefits.
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Parenchyma is the functional tissue of an organ that carries out its main job, distinct from the tissue that supports it.
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Two trainings in one person, which separates the role from a hospital chaplain and from a therapist who leaves belief aside.
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Perineural describes a location or process occurring around a nerve, most often used to describe the spread of cancer cells along nerve pathways.
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A perturbation is a disruption to a normally stable system, whether a physiologic process, a biological pathway, or a measurement being taken.
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Doctor is a courtesy title held across many professions, while physician names a specific license with a legally defined scope.
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One license covers every specialty, so a physician assistant can move from emergency medicine to dermatology without training again from scratch.
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Pigmentation describes both the deposition of pigment in tissue and the resulting degree of coloring, most often referring to melanin's role in skin, hair, and eye color.
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