Neurogenic

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Pertaining to the causes or conditions that emerge from the nervous system, especially in relation to medical disorders or influences from neural pathways
2. Relating to the origins of diseases or processes that are derived from the functioning of the nervous system, especially affecting nerve cells
3. Describing something that arises due to the nervous system's activity or influence

Etymology: "Neurogenic" is a plain technical coinage built from two Greek-derived pieces. The first, "neuro-", comes from Greek "neuron", which originally meant a sinew, tendon or cord before it came to mean the nerve fibres of the body. The second, "-genic", comes from Greek "genēs" via the suffix "-genes", meaning produced by or originating in, as in "pathogenic" or "carcinogenic". Put together, the word means something that arises from or is produced by the nervous system. Its literal sense is therefore quite concrete: a symptom or condition whose cause lies in nerve tissue rather than in muscle, blood or some other organ. Its use is almost entirely medical and scientific, and it has grown in the last century as clinicians distinguished disorders driven by the nerves from those driven by other tissues.

Synonyms: nervous, neurological