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NEUROSCIENTIST

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A neurobiologist who specializes in the study of the brain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("neuroscientist" is a kind of...):

neurobiologist (a specialist in neurobiology)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "neuroscientist"):

neurolinguist (someone trained in neuroscience and linguistics who studies brain processes during language production and reception)

Instance hyponyms:

David Hubel; Hubel (United States neuroscientist noted for his studies of the neural basis of vision (born in 1926))

Derivation:

neuroscience (the scientific study of the nervous system)

Credits

 Context examples: 

That’s when our approach started, said neuroscientist Cláudia Figueiredo, one of the research coordinators.

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