Etymology

neurosphere

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Today it means: A free-floating structure generated in vitro by neural stem cells Full definition →

English sphere ← Middle English spere ← Old French sphere
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)neh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*snéh₁wr̥
  3. Ancient Greekνεῦρον (neûron)
  4. Ancient Greekνευρο- (neuro-)
  5. Englishneuro-
  6. Ancient Greekσφαῖρᾰ (sphaîră)
  7. Latinsphaera
  8. Late Latinsphēra
  9. Old Frenchsphere
  10. Middle Englishspere
  11. Englishsphere
  12. English todayneurosphere

From neuro- + -sphere.

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