Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to a nerve or the nervous system.
- adj. Of, relating to, or located on the same side of the body as the spinal cord; dorsal.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to nerves or the nervous system at large; nervous.
- Specifically, of or relating to the cerebrospinal nervous system of a vertebrate.
- Situated on that side of the body, with reference to the vertebral axis, on which the brain and spinal cord lie; dorsal or tergal: opposed to ventral, sternal, visceral, or hemal.
- In physiology, done or taking place in the nerves.
- n. One of the bony plates that lie upon and fuse with the summit of the spinous process and take part in the formation of the carapace of a turtle.
Wiktionary
- adj. biology Of, or relating to the nerves, neurons or the nervous system.
- adj. computing Modelled on the arrangement of neurons in the brain.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Anat. & Zoöl.) relating to the nerves or nervous system; taining to, situated in the region of, or on the side with, the neural, or cerebro-spinal, axis; -- opposed to
hemal . As applied to vertebrates,neural is the same asdorsal ; as applied to invertebrates it is usually the same asventral . Cf. hemal.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to neurons
- adj. of or relating to the nervous system
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neuron, "a sinew, nerve") + -al. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“You may have heard the term neural connections—these are the biochemical “wires” that get created as you experience life.”
“Every time you experience something, your brain lays down what they call a neural network and then when you get new sensory information you tend to shunt what you are getting into the old neural networks.”
“This is pretty common in neural computing literature, but this thing seems actually practical.”
“It is also true that these covariances of mental ability correspond to covariances in neural characteristics, and so psychologists believe that the explanation of this covariance will be found in terms of neurological function.”
“Practically speaking, if you could show that some sub-atomic particle was, like the graviton, exchanged between matter, but also interacted with the sub-atomic activity in neural systems, functioning as a mechanism of information exchange, then you have a medium by which my desire at point A can be communicated to you at point C.”
“Both types of Herpes virus live in neural ganglia close to the site of infection.”
“For example, animal research has found that if the mother-infant relationship is disrupted, long-term neural changes occur that can lead to “increased vulnerability to aging and to psychopathology”43—in other words, to mental and physical illnesses.”
“It is called neural networks, it is people trying to make artificial systems work in a way that is similar to the brain.”
“The nuclear receptor tailless induces long term neural stem cell expansion and brain tumor initiation.”
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