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Twitter :: Twitter (n.) A slight trembling or agitation of the nerves.

Lycopodiaceous :: Lycopodiaceous (a.) Belonging, or relating, to the Lycopodiaceae, an order of cryptogamous plants (called also club mosses) with branching stems, and small, crowded, one-nerved, and usually pointed leaves..

Akinesia :: Akinesia (n.) Paralysis of the motor nerves; loss of movement.

Feminine :: Feminine (a.) Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate..

Nervation :: Nervation (n.) The arrangement of nerves and veins, especially those of leaves; neuration..

Homoeomerous :: Homoeomerous (a.) Having the main artery of the leg parallel with the sciatic nerve; -- said of certain birds.

Incito-motor :: Incito-motor (a.) Inciting to motion; -- applied to that action which, in the case of muscular motion, commences in the nerve centers, and excites the muscles to contraction. Opposed to excito-motor..

Centrostaltic :: Centrostaltic (a.) A term applied to the action of nerve force in the spinal center.

Vasomotor :: Vasomotor (a.) Causing movement in the walls of vessels; as, the vasomotor mechanisms; the vasomotor nerves, a system of nerves distributed over the muscular coats of the blood vessels..

Irritation :: Irritation (n.) The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; esp., the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial stimulation; as, the irritation of a motor nerve by electricity; also, the condition of a muscle and nerve, under such stimulation..

Sinew :: Sinew (n.) Muscle; nerve.

Aesthesodic :: Aesthesodic (a.) Conveying sensory or afferent impulses; -- said of nerves.

Electro-vital :: Electro-vital (a.) Derived from, or dependent upon, vital processes; -- said of certain electric currents supposed by some physiologists to circulate in the nerves of animals..

Varicosity :: Varicosity (n.) An enlargement or swelling in a vessel, fiber, or the like; a varix; as, the varicosities of nerve fibers..

Supramaxillary :: Supramaxillary (a.) Situated over the lower jaw; as, the supramaxillary nerve..

Multipolar :: Multipolar (a.) Having many poles; -- applied especially to those ganglionic nerve cells which have several radiating processes.

Nervate :: Nervate (a.) Nerved.

Electrogeny :: Electrogeny (n.) A term sometimes applied to the effects (tetanus) produced in the muscles of the limbs, when a current of electricity is passed along the spinal cord or nerves..

Lingual :: Lingual (a.) Of or pertaining to the tongue; uttered by the aid of the tongue; glossal; as, the lingual nerves; a lingual letter..

Retinerved :: Retinerved (a.) Having reticulated veins.

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