neuronymy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "After giving the subject much attention he had concluded that neuronymy would be most advanced by the employment of technical Latin names as far as possible with an English dress or with a vernacular face and aspect."
- "There are about one hundred Latin encephalic names beginning with corpus; rid of them, neuronymy is relieved, lightened, literally disemoodied."
- "As a result, the rising generation of students at all our colleges will learn, especially in neuronymy, a brain which differs so greatly in its terms from that of our day that unless we who learned our anatomy many years ago keep “brushed up” we shall not know what in the world the boys are talking about."
Etymology
From neuro- + -onymy.