Definition of nerve

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Nerve (n.) A sinew or a tendon.

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Neurography :: Neurography (n.) A description of the nerves.
Neurokeratin :: Neurokeratin (n.) A substance, resembling keratin, present in nerve tissue, as in the sheath of the axis cylinder of medullated nerve fibers. Like keratin it resists the action of most chemical agents, and by decomposition with sulphuric acid yields leucin and tyrosin..
Vaginervose :: Vaginervose (a.) Having the nerves, or veins, placed in apparent disorder..
Neural :: Neural (a.) relating to the nerves or nervous system; taining to, situated in the region of, or on the side with, the neural, or cerebro-spinal, axis; -- opposed to hemal. As applied to vertebrates, neural is the same as dorsal; as applied to invertebrates it is usually the same as ventral. Cf. Hemal..
Neuralgia :: Neuralgia (n.) A disease, the chief symptom of which is a very acute pain, exacerbating or intermitting, which follows the course of a nervous branch, extends to its ramifications, and seems therefore to be seated in the nerve. It seems to be independent of any structural lesion..
Vision :: Vision (v.) The faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of external objects are appreciated as a result of the stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an expansion of the optic nerve..
Neuroma :: Neuroma (n.) A tumor developed on, or connected with, a nerve, esp. one consisting of new-formed nerve fibers..
Oculonasal :: Oculonasal (a.) Of or pertaining to the region of the eye and the nose; as, the oculonasal, or nasal, nerve, one of the branches of the ophthalmic..
Nerveless :: Nerveless (a.) Destitute of nerves.
Suboctave :: Suboccipital (a.) Situated under, or posterior to, the occiput; as, the suboccipital, or first cervical, nerve..
Neurotic :: Neurotic (n.) A disease seated in the nerves.
Diaphragmatic :: Diaphragmatic (a.) Pertaining to a diaphragm; as, diaphragmatic respiration; the diaphragmatic arteries and nerves..
Quintuple-ribbed :: Quintuple-ribbed (a.) The same as Quinquenerved.
Feeling :: Feeling (n.) The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; that one of the five senses which resides in the general nerves of sensation distributed over the body, especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects..
Binervate :: Binervate (a.) Having only two nerves, as the wings of some insects..
Nerveless :: Nerveless (a.) Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless.
Nervous :: Nervous (a.) Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; as, nervous excitement; a nervous fever..
Hypoglossal :: Hypoglossal (a.) Under the tongue; -- applied esp., in the higher vertebrates, to the twelfth or last pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the base of the tongue..
Plexus :: Plexus (n.) A network of vessels, nerves, or fibers..
Neuration :: Neuration (n.) The arrangement or distribution of nerves, as in the leaves of a plant or the wings of an insect; nervation..
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