neuro-, neur-, neuri-, -neuroma, -neurotic, -neurosis, -neuron, -neural, -neuria

A hormone formed by neurosecretory cells and liberated by nerve impulses (e.g., norepinephrine).

1. A drug that is useful in the treatment of mental disorders, especially psychoses.
2. A reference to the actions of such a drug.

A state of analgesic consciousness produced by the administration of neuroleptic drugs, allowing painless surgery to be performed on a wakeful subject.

1. The science concerned with the neural mechanisms underlying the comprehension, production, and abstract knowledge or spoken, signed, or written language.
2. The branch of linguistics that explores how the brain encodes language.
3. The branch of medical science concerned with the neuroanatomical basis of speech and its disorders.

Pathologic softening of nervous tissue.

A term referring to the hysterical or neurotic simulation of disease.