Definition of nerve

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Nerve (n.) Physical force or steadiness; muscular power and control; constitutional vigor.

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Motorial :: Motorial (n.) Causing or setting up motion; pertaining to organs of motion; -- applied especially in physiology to those nerves or nerve fibers which only convey impressions from a nerve center to muscles, thereby causing motion..
Vagus :: Vagus (a.) Wandering; -- applied especially to the pneumogastric nerve.
Neurility :: Neurility (n.) The special properties and functions of the nerves; that capacity for transmitting a stimulus which belongs to nerves.
Myelin :: Myelin (n.) A soft white substance constituting the medullary sheats of nerve fibers, and composed mainly of cholesterin, lecithin, cerebrin, albumin, and some fat..
Multipolar :: Multipolar (a.) Having many poles; -- applied especially to those ganglionic nerve cells which have several radiating processes.
Dissolute :: Dissolute (a.) With nerves unstrung; weak.
Apolar :: Apolar (a.) Having no radiating processes; -- applied particularly to certain nerve cells.
Lumbosacral :: Lumbosacral (n.) Of or pertaining to the loins and sacrum; as, the lumbosacral nerve, a branch of one of the lumber nerves which passes over the sacrum..
Heartstring :: Heartstring (n.) A nerve or tendon, supposed to brace and sustain the heart..
Neurosensiferous :: Neurosensiferous (a.) Pertaining to, or forming, both nerves and sense organs..
Digastric :: Digastric (a.) Pertaining to the digastric muscle of the lower jaw; as, the digastric nerves..
Vaginervose :: Vaginervose (a.) Having the nerves, or veins, placed in apparent disorder..
Beriberi :: Beriberi (n.) An acute disease occurring in India, characterized by multiple inflammatory changes in the nerves, producing great muscular debility, a painful rigidity of the limbs, and cachexy..
Oculomotor :: Oculomotor (n.) The oculomotor nerve.
String :: String (n.) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
Musculocutaneous :: Musculocutaneous (a.) Pertaining both to muscles and skin; as, the musculocutaneous nerve..
Sensor :: Sensor (a.) Sensory; as, the sensor nerves..
Neuration :: Neuration (n.) The arrangement or distribution of nerves, as in the leaves of a plant or the wings of an insect; nervation..
Exodic :: Exodic (a.) Conducting influences from the spinal cord outward; -- said of the motor or efferent nerves. Opposed to esodic.
Innervation :: Innervation (n.) The distribution of nerves in an animal, or to any of its parts..
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