neurulation
noun
neurulation is a noun meaning “The process by which the beginnings of the vertebrate nervous system is formed in embryos” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-E-U-R-U-L-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 58 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of neurulation is neurulations.
What does neurulation mean?
noun
- 1
The process by which the beginnings of the vertebrate nervous system is formed in embryos.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of neurulation
- neurulations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is neurulation?
Neurulation appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Neurulation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense nervous system formation:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | neurulation |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does neurulation come from?
From neurula + -ation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).