neuroinfectiology
/ˌnʊəɹoʊˌɪnfɛkʃiˈɒlədʒi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
7
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An interdisciplinary field focusing on infections of the nervous system, encompassing the study of pathogen-host interactions, immune responses, and the resulting neurological consequences. It integrates aspects of neurology, infectious diseases, immunology, and molecular biology to understand and manage central nervous system (CNS) infections.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "This work was supported by the Max Planck Society, the Max Planck Förderstiftung, the DFG (CNMPB), EXTRABRAIN EU-FP7, and the Niedersachsen-Research Network on Neuroinfectiology (N-RENNT)."
- "Since 2018, she is junior professor for Alternatives and Complementary Methods to Animal Experiments at TiHo with her research focusing on development of stem cell-based in vitro assays on the field of neurotoxicology and neuroinfectionology."
- "Asparouh Iliev, a Bulgarian specialist in molecular neuroinfectiology from the University of Bern, has praised the two RNA vaccines, characterizing them as extremely safe and also regarding them as very similar to each other."
Etymology
From neuro- + infectiology.