brain traffic
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.59 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In our healthy astronaut normal brain traffic is ordinarily so heavy that it swamps completely any weak trickle via the reducing valve. Therefore he is never normally subject to "imaginations.""
- "When a large amount of one amino acid is administered, the delicate balance of amino acid "brain traffic" becomes distorted."
- "Most of this brain traffic, healthy or otherwise, consists of specialized messenger cells, called neurons, which transmit electrical and chemical signals to other cells throughout the brain, muscles and other parts of the body."
- "This smile brought another problem of how to put a new guy at the top of the mast without lowering the mast. Much brain traffic was handled. Many books and journals were consulted including our great amateur Bible, QST"
- "But the system continues operating. "Brain traffic" is developing. It spreads to the widest range of specialists, from a rank-and-file engineer to a prominent scientist; from an ordinary manager of a plant to an executive of a national corporation."
- "To tie knowledge management directly to the university's nervous system, Nielsen created a Web site for its employees that acts as a brain traffic controller."