This table lists the original Greek and Latin meanings of neuroscience words. Most of the words are neuroanatomical terms, but neurological symptoms and disorders are also included. |
WORDMEANING abducens.....drawing away ablation.....carrying away accumbens.....lie down acetylcholine.....vinegar bile adrenalin.....near the kidney afferent.....to carry agnosia.....no knowledge alar.....wing-like alexia.....no words alveus.....canal amacrine.....no long fiber ambidextrous.....both right ambiguus.....doubtful amblyopia.....dull vision amnesia.....forgetfulness ampulla.....small bottle amygdala.....almond analgesia.....no pain anatomy.....up cutting aneurysm.....widening anesthesia.....no sensation ansa.....urn handle anterior.....in front of antitoxin.....against poison aphagia.....no eat aphasia.....no speech apical.....tip, top aqueduct.....water canal arachnoid.....spider like arbor vitae.....tree of life arcuate n......bow shaped astigmatism.....not a point astrocyte.....star-like cell ataxia.....not orderly atropine.....inflexible atrophy.....without nourishment auditory.....to hear aura.....breath, breeze auricle.....a little ear autonomic.....self law axon.....axis, axle basilar.....base bouton.....button brachium.....arm bregma.....front of the head calcarine.....spur-shaped callosum.....hard, tough cannula.....reed carotid.....to put to sleep cataplexy.....down stroke, seizure catatonia.....down tone cauda.....tail cauda equina.....horse tail caudate.....tail causalgia.....burning pain cenereum.....ash gray cephalic.....head cerebellum.....little brain cerebrum.....brain ceruleus.....blue cerumen.....wax cervical.....neck chiasm.....a crossing chorea.....to dance choroid.....like a membrane or skin ciliary.....eyelash cinereum.....ashen-hued cingulum.....girdle or belt circadian.....about a day cistern.....reservior or well claustrum.....barrier coccyx.....cuckoo cochlea.....snail shell colliculus.....little hill conscious.....aware conus.....cone or peg coma.....deep sleep commissure.....joining together conjunctivum.....join convolution.....a turn, a folding convulsion.....pulling together cornu.....horn corona.....crown corpus.....body cortex.....bark, shell, outer layer cranium.....skull cribiform.....sieve-like crista.....crest cruciate.....cross-shaped crus.....leg culmen.....ridge, summit cuneate.....wedge cupula.....little tub decussation.....crossing dementia.....away from mind dendrite.....tree dentate.....notched, having teeth diencephalon.....through, between brain distal.....to stand apart or be distant dorsal.....the back dura.....hard dyskinesia.....improper motion edema.....swelling efferent....carry out (away) emboliform.....plug-like encephalitis.....brain inflammation encephalogram.....brain writing ependyma.....upper garment epilepsy.....seizure ethmoid.....sieve-like falx.....sickle fasciculus.....little bundle femoral.....thigh filum.....thread fimbria.....fringe fissure.....cleft or slit flocculus.....tuft of wool folium.....leaf foramen.....opening fornix.....arch fossa.....trench, channel fovea.....pit, depression fundus.....bottom funiculus.....little cord fusiform.....spindle-shaped ganglion.....knot, swelling genu.....knee geniculate.....bent like a knee glabrous.....bald gland.....acorn glia.....glue globus pallidus.....pale ball glossal.....tongue gracile.....slender gyrus.....ring, circle |
WORDMEANING habenula.....rein hallucination.....to wander in the mind hemorrhage.....to burst forth with blood hippocampus.....sea horse, sea monster hormone.....to excite hypnosis.....sleep hypoglossal.....under the tongue hypophysis.....down growth hypothalamus....under thalamus incus.....anvil infundibulum.....funnel insula.....island iris.....rainbow jugular.....throat labyrinth.....maze lamina.....layer, thin plate lemniscus.....woolen band or filet lens.....lentil lenticular.....shaped like a lens limbic.....border, hem, fringe lingula.....little tongue locus coeruleus.....blue spot lumbar.....pertaining to the loins macula.....spot malleus.....hammer mater (dura).....mother medulla.....innermost, marrow melanin.....black meninges.....membrane meningitis.....membrane inflammation microglia.....small glue myelin.....marrow myopia.....to shut eye narcolepsy.....numbness seizure narcotic.....benumbing, deadening neuron.....nerve node.....knot nucleus.....nut obex.....barrier oblongata.....rather long occiput.....back of the head oculomotor.....eye movement olfactory.....to smell oligodendrocyte.....few tree cell operculus.....cover, lid optic.....for sight oscilloscope.....to examine swinging oxytocin.....sharp/swift childbirth pallidus.....pale paralysis.....to loosen paranoia.....mind beside itself parietal.....wall patella.....little plate peduncle.....stemlike pellucidum.....translucent pia.....soft pineal.....pine cone pinna....wing piriform.....pear-shaped pituitary.....slime, mucous placebo.....to please plexus.....a braid pons.....bridge potential.....power prosopagnosia.....no face knowledge pterygoid.....wing-shaped pulp.....flesh pulvinar.....cushion, pillow, couch pupil.....doll, little girl putamen.....shell pyramis.....pyramid pyriform.....pear-shaped quadrigemina.....four twins rabies.....to rage ramus.....branch raphe.....seam rectus.....straight restiform.....rope-like reticular.....net-like retina.....net rhodopsin.....rose eye rostral.....beak rubro.....red sacral.....sacred, holy sagittal.....arrow schizophrenia.....split mind sciatic.....the hip sclera.....hard sella turcica.....Turkish saddle semilunar.....half moon serotonin.....blood stretching septum.....wall, partition sinus.....a hollow solitarius.....alone soma.....body somnambulism.....sleep walk somniloquism.....sleep speak (talk) spine.....thorn splenium.....bandage stapes.....stirrup stellate.....star stimulate.....to goad striated.....striped substantia innominata.....unnamed substance substantia nigra.....black substance sulcus.....groove, trench, furrow sympathetic.....with suffering synapse.....connection synesthesia.....together perception tapetum.....carpet tectum.....roof tegmentum.....covering temporal.....time tentorium.....tent thalamus.....inner chamber thoracic.....chest trabecula.....little beam tremor....to shake trigeminal.....three twins trochlear.....pulley tuber cinereum.....ashy lump tubercle.....swelling tympanum.....drum uncus.....hook vagus.....wandering velum.....covering ventricle.....small cavity vermis.....worm vertebra.....to turn vertex.....top, summit, whirl, whirlpool vesicle.....blister, bladder vitreous.....glassy |
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