Meanings
- not comparablePertaining to neuroscience.
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Gall's science of “bump reading” would ultimately be abandoned as much for its fixation on social categories as for an inability within the scientific community to replicate its findings. These scientific failings would be exposed by anatomists like Paul Broca (1861) and Carl Wernicke (1874) who pioneered the alternative neuroscientific method of lesion–symptom mapping.
2018 September, O. Parker Jones, F. Alfaro-Almagro, S. Jbabdi, “An empirical, 21st century evaluation of phrenology”, in Cortex, volume 106, pages 26–35
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*(s)neh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*snéh₁wr̥
- Ancient Greekνεῦρον (neûron)
- Ancient Greekνευρο- (neuro-)
- Englishneuro-
- Proto-Indo-European*sek-?
- Proto-Indo-European*skey-
- Latinsciō
- Latinsciēns
- Latinscientia
- Medieval Latinscientificus
- Middle Frenchscientifique
- Englishscientific
- Englishneuroscientific
From neuro- + scientific.
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neuroscientific. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/neuroscientific
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