ˈneurism rare.
[f. neur- + -ism.]
1. Nerve-force; neuricity.
| 1871 Cope Origin of Fittest v. (1887) 205 The Vital Forces are (nerve-force) Neurism, (growth-force) Bathmism, and (thought-force) Phrenism. |
2. ‘The hypothesis according to which all the phenomena of the living body are due to the action of a nervous fluid’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1892).