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Definition of "neuroendocrinology" [neuroendocrinology]

  • The study of the interaction between the nervous system and the endocrine glands and their secretions. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "neuroendocrinology" in a sentence
  • "Michelle Foster, a postdoc in neuroendocrinology at UCSF, sought out MentorNet not only because she is a woman in a male-dominated career path, but also because she wanted perspective from another African American woman in neuroscience."
  • "CHOPRA: First, it was internal medicine, but then it endocrinology, and then neuroendocrinology, which is the study of brain chemicals."
  • "They came for a lecture on behavioral neuroendocrinology, by Emma Coddington, an assistant professor of biology at Willamette University."