What's the difference between neuro and neurologist?
Neuro
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Dibutyryl cyclic AMP (dbcAMP) treatment of Neuro 2A neuroblastoma cells induces cell differentiation and neurite outgrowth.
(2) The OPL first appears as a thin, discontinuous break in the cytoblast layer that is frequently interrupted by the profiles of migrating neuro- and glioblasts.
(3) At least four cases were fatal, three died with neuro-Behçet.
(4) The authors report 6 cases of acute respiratory failure complicating chronic bronchial and lung disease admitted to hospital with the diagnosis of: heart disease, 3 cases, pulmonary oedema, pulmonary embolism, atrial flutter; status asthmaticus : one case; neuro-psychiatric disease : 2 cases (toxic coma and agitation).
(5) Prior to iontophoresis a complete audiologic, neuro-otologic and x-ray examination of the temporal bones was performed.
(6) Questionnaires assessing symptoms, disability and handicap, predisposition to anxiety, and current anxiety and depression were completed by 127 people attending neuro-otology clinics with a major complaint of vertigo or dysequilibrium.
(7) Of the complications, only the neuro-muscular type is of importance and the possible causes of this are discussed.
(8) Chlormethiazole is effective in the treatment of the ethanol withdrawal syndrome because of its tolerability, lack of hepatotoxicity, short plasma half-life, lack of any long-acting intermediate metabolites and lack of adverse effects on the neuro-endocrine system in alcoholics.
(9) Antagonism by neuro-amino acids of the central effects of angiotensin II and renin in rats was investigated.
(10) Based on these data a hypothesis is put forward to explain the immuno- and neuro-modulatory effects of muramyl peptides.
(11) It is now a well-known fact that the human body is able to use luminous stimulation for aims other than sight; the pineal gland, though no longer directly sensitive to light as in lower animals, is nevertheless the fulcrum of a complex neuro-endocrine system which makes an interaction between light and the human body possible by means of the production of a number of substances of which melatonin is the most widely investigated.
(12) A housewife, 42 years old, died from a chronic progressive neuro-psychiatric illness of 15 years duration characterized by memory disturbance, moria-syndrome, euphoria, social disorder and extrapyramidal symptoms combined with a severe bone disease.
(13) This case is an unusual example of fibrous dysplasia of the skull with neuro-ophthalmological symptoms but without ptosis, exophthalmos, or visual loss.
(14) So, it seems that this method may be appropriate for complexity evaluation, and could be applied in the study of remodeling process in neuro- and myopathic diseases.
(15) The interplay between these two neuro-endocrine disorders may account for some of the symptoms of these patients.
(16) This confirmed the presence of neuro-endocrine cells in more than half of the patients under investigation.
(17) Bronchiolar smooth muscle cells therefore showed larger resting potentials and a greater tendency to fire action potentials than trachealis muscle, and prostaglandins and histamine are involved in inhibitory and accelerative mechanisms related to excitatory neuro-effector transmission, respectively.
(18) Neuro-urological studies were performed on 9 patients with a spinal arteriovenous malformation (S-AVM).
(19) A clone of Neuro 2a, N2AB-1, was shown to bind variable amounts of TT per cell and this binding could be saturated by increasing doses of the toxin.
(20) At an identified neuro-neuronal synapse of Aplysia, 2,5-diterbutyl 1,4-benzohydroquinone, a selective blocker of the reticulum Ca2+ pump, was found to potentiate evoked quantal release of acetylcholine through an increased accumulation of Ca2+ in the presynaptic neuron during depolarization without any accompanying changes in the presynaptic Ca2+ current.
Neurologist
Definition:
(n.) One who is versed in neurology; also, one skilled in the treatment of nervous diseases.
Example Sentences:
(1) Diagnoses suggested by neurologists have been confirmed by the CT in 69%.
(2) Visual judgments of tremor amplitude made by neurologists during clinical examinations equaled the sensitivity of computerized tremor amplitude measurements.
(3) This population-based case-control study of 130 Calgary residents with neurologist-confirmed idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) and 260 randomly selected age- and sex-matched community controls attempted to determine whether agricultural work or the occupational use of pesticide chemicals is associated with an increased risk for PD.
(4) In a consecutive series of 515 first-ever strokes in a community-based study of stroke that combined prompt clinical assessment by a study neurologist with a high rate of confirmed pathologic diagnosis, 108 cases (21%) had a lacunar syndrome.
(5) The main role in the care of the patients was played by neurologists from the public health service, but the number of house visits provided by physicians of the basic health service was slightly higher than that provided by neurologists.
(6) A team including the neurologist, internist, ophthalmologist, and surgeon optimizes care of the whole disease and not just the symptom.
(7) The actual number of neurologists is compared with earlier projections of neurology needs for 1990.
(8) This supports claims for an increase in the number of neurologists to improve the quality of service at district level.
(9) At the end of the diagnostic process the surgeon or internist and neurologist must decide together whether the diagnosis is appropriate, and then whether an operative or non-operative approach to treatment is fitting.
(10) The referral source in different age groups varied, but in all age groups relatively few were referred by the general paediatricians or paediatric neurologists.
(11) The Society had 74 members, of whom 14 were neurologists: J. Breitenfeld, D. Cop, I. Glavan, I. Herzog, A. Kuljzenko, D. Karminski, M. Lapinskij, R. Lopasić, H. Ortyński, V. Ostrovidov, F. Palmović, S. Poljak and D. Vranesić, all of them from Zagreb, and J. Robida from Ljubljana.
(12) Of the patients with panic disorder 9% had previously been assessed by a cardiologist and 17% by a neurologist.
(13) Since invasion of the nervous system by this parasite is a significant cause of intracranial hemorrhage in Thailand, it should be kept in mind by internists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, and pathologists who care for patients residing in, or who have visited, areas where G. spinigerum occurs.
(14) A case analysis has been performed on 4000 successive outpatient referrals to one consultant neurologist, representing 72% of all referrals to Charing Cross Hospital and 82% to Hillingdon Hospital.
(15) Testing the reliability and usefulness of disability scales in Parkinson's disease has been the object of a study carried out by 4 neurologists on 48 patients using 2 rating scales--Hoehn and Yahr staging and Columbia University Rating Scale--and 2 disability scales--Northwestern University Disability Scale and Extensive Disability Scale, a new scale conceived for this purpose, which is more accurate in examining in a different way the physical incapacity and handicap of parkinsonian patients in their daily living.
(16) Compelling reasons why neurologists, especially those with academic interests, should become involved in rehabilitation include the opportunity to observe patients in the recovery phases of their illnesses and to study issues relating to functional recovery, exposure to patients (such as those with spinal cord injury) who are often not seen by neurologists in the acute phase, and the opportunity to help establish a scientific base for rehabilitation medicine.
(17) Because of the increasing number of neuroethical dilemmas in medicine, neurologists are becoming more involved with the activities of institutional ethics committees and also serving as ethics consultants.
(18) Clinical, as well as basic neuroscience, information is culled by professional neurologists from 855 medical periodicals.
(19) Of 1761 three-year-old children born in 1979-80 and lived at Yonago city, Japan, 28 (1.6%; 25 boys and girls) were diagnosed as developmental speech delay by two pediatric neurologists.
(20) Random sample surveys of physicians and the general public by mail and telephone respectively and a mail survey of a selected panel of expert cardiologists and neurologists.