Mozkových

Mozkových is the genitive plural form of the Czech adjective mozkový, meaning brain or cerebral. It functions as an inflected form rather than a stand-alone noun and appears before a head noun that is in the genitive plural. In Czech, adjectives of the hard type take the ending -ých in the genitive plural, so mozkových modifies nouns such as buněk, cév, struktur, or dalších terms when these nouns are plural and in genitive.

Usage and meaning

Mozkových is common in medical, scientific, and academic language. It describes properties, conditions, or relations tied to the brain, with the head noun typically expressed in genitive plural. Examples include poškození mozkových buněk (damage to brain cells), funkce mozkových cév (the function of brain vessels), and choroby mozkových struktur (diseases of brain structures). The form communicates a possessive or relational sense, similar to phrases like “brain-related” in English, but constrained to contexts where the governing noun is in genitive plural.

Etymology and morphology

The word mozkový derives from mozek (brain) with the suffix -ový, forming an adjective meaning “brain-related.” Its genitive plural form mozkových adheres to standard Czech declension rules for hard adjectives, regardless of the gender of the head noun, when the head noun is plural and in genitive.

Notes

Mozkových does not stand alone as a noun; it must accompany a noun in genitive plural. It is chiefly encountered in formal, scientific, or clinical text rather than everyday speech.

See also

mozek, mozkový, cerebrovascular and neuroanatomy terms in Czech.