1
: of, relating to, or affecting a nerve or the nervous system
2
: situated in the region of or on the same side of the body as the brain and spinal cord : dorsal
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She suffers from a neural disorder.
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Some 75 percent of the genes that cause genetic diseases in humans are also found in fruit flies, so understanding their neural underpinnings could shed light on our own.
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Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
In a process known as neural coupling, a story provokes the neurons in our brain to mirror the patterns in a speaker’s brain.
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Since the 1950s, researchers have understood that the neural circuits that give rise to pleasure and pain are largely distinct, though they are located near one another and interact.
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For example, neural stem cells successfully differentiated into neurons and astrocytes following flattening, demonstrating that the procedure does not interfere with their biological processes.
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Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
In a process known as neural coupling, a story provokes the neurons in our brain to mirror the patterns in a speaker’s brain.
—Samantha Reynolds, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
Since the 1950s, researchers have understood that the neural circuits that give rise to pleasure and pain are largely distinct, though they are located near one another and interact.
—Richard A. Friedman, The Atlantic, 29 Nov. 2024
For example, neural stem cells successfully differentiated into neurons and astrocytes following flattening, demonstrating that the procedure does not interfere with their biological processes.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
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neural
adjective
neu·ral
ˈn(y)u̇r-əl 
: of, relating to, or affecting a nerve or the nervous system
Medical Definition
neural
adjective
neu·ral
ˈn(y)u̇r-əl
1
: of, relating to, or affecting a nerve or the nervous system
2
: situated in the region of or on the same side of the body as the brain and spinal cord : dorsal compare hemal sense 2
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