Definitions

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  • adjective neurology Between neurons
  • adjective neurology Of or pertaining to interneurons

Etymologies

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inter- + neuron + -al

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Examples

  • Temburni, MK, et al. Receptor Targeting and Heterogeneity at interneuronal nicotinic cholinergic synapses in vivo.

    T.S. Wiley: Estrogen Dilemma: There Is No Dilemma When You Know the Details T.S. Wiley 2010

  • That's because while the brain works at slower speeds than a computer, it has 100 trillion interneuronal connections, so it can perform 20 petaflops, while the fastest supercomputer can perform one or two petaflops.

    I, Robot 2009

  • Just recently, scanning tools can see individual interneuronal connections, and watch them fire in real time.

    Kurzweil Interview, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • The basic types of changes due to toxins can be divided into three categories - sensory, motor, and interneuronal - depending on the type of damage sustained.

    Neurotoxicity 2008

  • Now there are new tools that let us see the interneuronal connections and their signaling, in vivo, and in real-time.

    2005/04 - 2005/05 Zoe Brain 2005

  • Now there are new tools that let us see the interneuronal connections and their signaling, in vivo, and in real-time.

    Archive 2005-04-01 Zoe Brain 2005

  • My understanding is represented in vast patterns of neurotransmitter strengths, synaptic clefts, and interneuronal connections.

    'I Married a Computer': An Exchange Kurzweil, Ray 1999

  • These compounds share with the barbiturates the properties of addiction/habituation, seizure suppression (and withdrawal seizures after prolonged high dosage), and inhibition of spinal interneuronal transmission (muscle relaxation).

    The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993

  • It is here, especially, that we need to proceed with caution; if the principle of chemical transmission is ultimately to find a further extension to the interneuronal transmission in the brain itself, it is by patient testing of the groundwork of experimental fact, at each new step, that a safe and steady advance will be achieved.

    Sir Henry Dale - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • "Now there are new tools that let us see the interneuronal connections and their signaling, _in vivo, _ and in real-time.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

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