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neuroanatomist

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[noor-oh-uh-nat-uhm-ist, nyoor-oh-] / ˌnʊr oʊ əˈnæt əm ɪst, ˌnyʊr oʊ- /

noun

plural

neuroanatomists
  1. a person with expertise in neuroanatomy.


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The new results “are a really powerful demonstration that body size and brain size are regulated as two separate entities,” says Suzana Herculano-Houzel, a neuroanatomist at Vanderbilt University who was not involved with the research.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 30, 2022

As neuroanatomist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor told Salon in June, "When we dig our heels into something that we are emphatic and passionate about, we are using our limbic system, our emotional system."

From Salon • Sep. 13, 2021

A group led by neuroanatomist Heiko Braak at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, charts the development of Parkinson's pathology.

From Nature • Oct. 25, 2016

Only an expert neuroanatomist, armed with a microscope, can tell a grain-size piece of cortex of a mouse from that of a monkey or a human.

From Scientific American • Jan. 1, 2014

Now, none of this is terribly salacious—and it's quite possible that the first neuroanatomist ever to use this term, the 17th-century Englishman Thomas Willis, had nary a dirty thought in mind.

From Slate • May 17, 2011

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