neuronal
adjEtymology From neuron + -al.
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Of, or relating to a neuron.
- Nicotine, a stimulant found in tobacco, long used by Native Americans, taught scientists about the existence of our own nicotinic receptors, which influence neuronal excitement.2019 May 14, Moises Velasquez-Manoff, “Can CBD Really Do All That?”, in The New York Times Magazine:
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) measures local blood flow related to neuronal firing: When cells fire, they use up oxygen and glucose, and new, oxygen-rich blood then comes in to replenish these resources. These influxes of blood are what fMRI measures.2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Preliminaries: Components of Language Structure” (chapter 2), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 48:
- Derived terms
- antineuronal, corticoneuronal, extraneuronal, glioneuronal, intraneuronal, isoneuronal, microneuronal, multineuronal, neuronally, nonneuronal, oligoneuronal, onconeuronal, panneuronal, paraneuronal, perineuronal, polyneuronal, premotorneuronal, proneuronal, subneuronal, sympathoneuronal, transneuronal