different between neuro vs neural

English

Etymology

Shortening.

Noun

neuro (countable and uncountable, plural neuros)

1. (countable, informal) Neurologist.
2. (uncountable, informal) Neurology.
   • 2000, Melissa Anne Goldstein, Travels with the Wolf: A Story of Chronic Illness (page 47)

     My neurologist and the entire neuro department were an integral part of my hospital family. I was the darling of the department.

Synonyms

• (neurologist): neurologist

Anagrams

• Rouen

Dutch

Etymology

Blend of noorden +? euro or noordelijk +? euro, probably also influenced by neuro-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nø?.ro?/
• Hyphenation: neu?ro

Noun

neuro c (plural neuro's, diminutive neurootje n)

1. (politics) a (putative) common currency for northern Europe

Antonyms

• zeuro

Italian

Noun

neuro m (invariable)

1. neurological clinic (properly clinica neurologica)
2. (informal) madhouse

Anagrams

• nuore

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (neûron, “a sinew, nerve”) +? -al.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n???l/, /?n??l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?nj????l/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?nj???l/

Adjective

neural (not comparable)

1. (biology) Of, or relating to the nerves, neurons or the nervous system.
2. (computing) Modelled on the arrangement of neurons in the brain.

Derived terms

• neural network

Translations

Further reading

• neural in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• neural in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• neural at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Lauren, ulnare, unreal

Catalan

Adjective

neural (masculine and feminine plural neurals)

1. (anatomy) neural (relating to nerves)

Further reading

• “neural” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “neural” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “neural” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “neural” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Noun

neural (feminine singular neurale, masculine plural neuraux, feminine plural neurales)

1. neural

Further reading

• “neural” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Adjective

neural m or f (plural neurais)

1. (anatomy) neural (relating to nerves)

Further reading

• “neural” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Portuguese

Adjective

neural m or f (plural neurais, comparable)

1. (anatomy) neural (relating to nerves)

Further reading

• “neural” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “neural” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French neural

Adjective

neural m or n (feminine singular neural?, masculine plural neurali, feminine and neuter plural neurale)

1. neural

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /neu??al/, [neu???al]
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

neural (plural neurales)

1. (anatomy) neural (relating to nerves)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “neural” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.