Definition of nerve

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Nerve (n.) One of the principal fibrovascular bundles or ribs of a leaf, especially when these extend straight from the base or the midrib of the leaf..

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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..
Nerve :: Nerve (n.) Physical force or steadiness; muscular power and control; constitutional vigor.
Capillament :: Capillament (n.) Any villous or hairy covering; a fine fiber or filament, as of the nerves..
Trochleary :: Trochleary (a.) Pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; trochlear; as, the trochleary, or trochlear, nerve..
Rectinerved :: Rectinerved (a.) Having the veins or nerves straight; -- said of leaves.
Neuropathy :: Neuropathy (n.) An affection of the nervous system or of a nerve.
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..
Nervine :: Nervine (a.) Having the quality of acting upon or affecting the nerves; quieting nervous excitement.
Net-veined :: Net-veined (a.) Having veins, or nerves, reticulated or netted; as, a net-veined wing or leaf..
Ulnar :: Ulnar (a.) Of or pertaining to the ulna, or the elbow; as, the ulnar nerve..
Nerve :: Nerve (n.) One of the nervures, or veins, in the wings of insects..
Upset :: Upset (v. t.) To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to make ill; as, the fright upset her..
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..
Recti- :: Recti- () A combining form signifying straight; as, rectilineal, having straight lines; rectinerved..
Neurilemma :: Neurilemma (n.) The delicate outer sheath of a nerve fiber; the primitive sheath.
Nerve :: Nerve (n.) A sinew or a tendon.
Afferent :: Afferent (a.) Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ; -- opposed to efferent; as, afferent vessels; afferent nerves, which convey sensations from the external organs to the brain..
Suboctave :: Suboccipital (a.) Situated under, or posterior to, the occiput; as, the suboccipital, or first cervical, nerve..
Neurility :: Neurility (n.) The special properties and functions of the nerves; that capacity for transmitting a stimulus which belongs to nerves.
Auditory :: Auditory (a.) Of or pertaining to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear..
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