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neuroanatomist

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

noun

neuroanatomists plural
  1. a person with expertise in neuroanatomy.


Example Sentences

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Looking for a more trustworthy alternative, Suzana Herculano-Houzel, a neuroanatomist at Vanderbilt University, turned to a different measure: the density of neurons in the cortex, the wrinkly outer brain area critical to most intelligence-related tasks.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 10, 2023

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

Indeed, only a neuroanatomist can tell a rice grain–size piece of mouse cortex from the same chunk of human cortex.

From Scientific American • Jul. 26, 2011

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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