From Greek 'neuron' (sinew, nerve), from PIE *sneh1- — literally 'the study of the body's strings.'
The branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the nervous system.
From Greek 'neuron' (νεῦρον, sinew, tendon, nerve, bowstring) + '-logia' (the study of, discourse about), from 'logos' (word, reason). Greek 'neuron' originally meant 'sinew' or 'bowstring' — the taut fibrous cords visible in dissected limbs — and was extended to mean 'nerve' when anatomists recognized that nerves run through the body as cord-like structures. The Greek word derives from PIE *sneh₁- (to spin, twist, bind
Greek 'neuron' originally meant 'bowstring' — the taut cord of a bow — then 'sinew' and 'tendon,' then finally 'nerve.' Ancient anatomists saw nerves as string-like structures, so they named them with the word for strings. And PIE *sneh₁- (to spin) also gave us 'needle' and 'snare.' The nervous
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