Definition of nerve

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Nerve (v. t.) To give strength or vigor to; to supply with force; as, fear nerved his arm..

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Ulnar :: Ulnar (a.) Of or pertaining to the ulna, or the elbow; as, the ulnar nerve..
Neuro- :: Neuro- () A combining denoting a nerve, of / pertaining to a nerve / the nervous system..
Myelonal :: Myelonal (a.) Of or pertaining to the myelon; as, the myelonal, or spinal, nerves..
Dentiphone :: Dentiphone (n.) An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve; an audiphone..
Sting :: Stimulus (v. t.) That which excites or produces a temporary increase of vital action, either in the whole organism or in any of its parts; especially (Physiol.), any substance or agent capable of evoking the activity of a nerve or irritable muscle, or capable of producing an impression upon a sensory organ or more particularly upon its specific end organ..
Audiphone :: Audiphone (n.) An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctly; a dentiphone..
Reflection :: Reflection (n.) The transference of an excitement from one nerve fiber to another by means of the nerve cells, as in reflex action. See Reflex action, under Reflex..
Neuropathy :: Neuropathy (n.) An affection of the nervous system or of a nerve.
Funiculus :: Funiculus (n.) A cord, baud, or bundle of fibers; esp., one of the small bundles of fibers, of which large nerves are made up; applied also to different bands of white matter in the brain and spinal cord..
Accelerator :: Accelerator (n.) One who, or that which, accelerates. Also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves..
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..
Auditory :: Auditory (a.) Of or pertaining to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear..
Nervelessness :: Nervelessness (n.) The state of being nerveless.
Vagal :: Vagal (a.) Of or pertaining to the vagus, or pneumogastric nerves; pneumogastric..
Specialist :: Specialist (n.) One who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc..
Depressomotor :: Depressomotor (a.) Depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement, as depressomotor nerves, which lower or inhibit muscular activity..
Binervate :: Binervate (a.) Having only two nerves, as the wings of some insects..
Sinew :: Sinew (n.) Muscle; nerve.
Efferent :: Efferent (a.) Conveyed outward; as, efferent impulses, i. e., such as are conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous organ outwards; -- opposed to afferent..
Aesthesodic :: Aesthesodic (a.) Conveying sensory or afferent impulses; -- said of nerves.
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