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neural

American  
[noor-uhl, nyoor-] / ˈnʊər əl, ˈnyʊər- /

adjective

  1. of or relating to a nerve or the nervous system.


neural British  
/ ˈnjʊərəl /

adjective

  1. of or relating to a nerve or the nervous system

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neural Scientific  
/ nrəl /
  1. Relating to the nerves or nervous system.


Other Word Forms

  • interneural adjective
  • neurally adverb
  • nonneural adjective
  • postneural adjective
  • preneural adjective
  • subneural adjective
  • unneural adjective

Etymology

Origin of neural

First recorded in 1830–40; neur- + -al 1

Example Sentences

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The new findings point toward a different possibility: therapies that improve attention by calming neural activity instead of amplifying it.

From Science Daily

The findings were recently published in Nature Methods and could significantly change how neural activity is measured and analyzed in neuroscience research.

From Science Daily

When the tissue received gentle electrical stimulation designed to bring out more neural activity, accuracy increased to 92%.

From Science Daily

“When you can do those sorts of things to memories, you know you have found the neural basis of a memory.”

From Los Angeles Times

We identified neural circuits related to deception in Meta’s large language model Llama 70B and then manipulated them when the model turned its attention inward.

From The Wall Street Journal