Neurology Definition–noun | the science of the nerves and the nervous system, esp. of the diseases affecting them. | |
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medical specialty concerned with the nervous system and its functional or organic disorders. Neurologists diagnose and treat diseases and disorders of the brain, spinal cord, and nerves.nursing
Clinical nursing specialists are prepared in universities at the master's level. Their clinically focused education is in particular specialties, such as neurology, cardiology, rehabilitation, or ...
nervous system disease
An old saying in medicine, "Listen to the patient; he is telling you the diagnosis," is especially true in neurology. A patient's description of symptoms is a valuable tool that allows the physician ...
Bannister, Sir Roger (Gilbert)
English neurologist who was the first athlete to run a mile in less than four minutes.Prusiner, Stanley B.
American neurologist whose discovery of the disease-causing protein called prion in 1982 won him the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.Prusiner, Stanley
In San Francisco in the early 1970s, a young neurology resident named Stanley Prusiner was in charge of a patient who died of a rare fatal degenerative disorder of the brain called Creutzfeldt-Jakob ...
Marie, Pierre
French neurologist whose discovery that growth disorders are caused by pituitary disease contributed to the modern science of endocrinology.Mitchell, S. Weir
American physician and author who excelled in novels of psychology and historical romance.Prince, Morton
American psychologist and physician who advocated the study of abnormal psychology and formulated concepts such as the neurogram, or neurological record of psychological behaviour, and the ...
Bell, Sir Charles
Scottish anatomist whose New Idea of Anatomy of the Brain (1811) has been called the "Magna Carta of neurology." A graduate of the University of Edinburgh, Bell went to London (1804), where he held ...
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