Definition of nervous

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Nervous (a.) Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; as, nervous excitement; a nervous fever..

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Neurotomy :: Neurotomy (n.) The dissection, or anatomy, of the nervous system..
Nervous :: Nervous (a.) Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; as, nervous excitement; a nervous fever..
Peripheral :: Peripheral (a.) External; away from the center; as, the peripheral portion of the nervous system..
Neurocord :: Neurocord (n.) A cordlike organ composed of elastic fibers situated above the ventral nervous cord of annelids, like the earthworm..
Pellagra :: Pellagra (n.) An erythematous affection of the skin, with severe constitutional and nervous symptoms, endemic in Northern Italy..
Neurosis :: Neurosis (n.) A functional nervous affection or disease, that is, a disease of the nerves without any appreciable change of nerve structure..
Heterogangliate :: Heterogangliate (a.) Having the ganglia of the nervous system unsymmetrically arranged; -- said of certain invertebrate animals.
Twittering :: Twittering (n.) A slight nervous excitement or agitation, such as is caused by desire, expectation, or suspense..
Nervous :: Nervous (a.) possessing nerve; sinewy; strong; vigorous.
Pith :: Pith (v. t.) To destroy the central nervous system of (an animal, as a frog), as by passing a stout wire or needle up and down the vertebral canal..
Internuncial :: Internuncial (a.) Communicating or transmitting impressions between different parts of the body; -- said of the nervous system.
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..
Cathodic :: Cathodic (a.) A term applied to the centrifugal, or efferent, course of the nervous influence..
Sympathetical :: Sympathetic (a.) Of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system or some of its branches; produced by stimulation on the sympathetic nervious system or some part of it; as, the sympathetic saliva, a modified form of saliva, produced from some of the salivary glands by stimulation of a sympathetic nerve fiber..
Taenia :: Taenia (n.) A band; a structural line; -- applied to several bands and lines of nervous matter in the brain.
Cough :: Cough (v. i.) A sudden, noisy, and violent expulsion of air from the chest, caused by irritation in the air passages, or by the reflex action of nervous or gastric disorder, etc..
Demulcent :: Demulcent (n.) A substance, usually of a mucilaginous or oily nature, supposed to be capable of soothing an inflamed nervous membrane, or protecting it from irritation. Gum Arabic, glycerin, olive oil, etc., are demulcents..
Neuromere :: Neuromere (n.) A metameric segment of the cerebro-spinal nervous system.
Neuro-epidermal :: Neuro-epidermal (a.) Pertaining to, or giving rise to, the central nervous system and epiderms; as, the neuroepidermal, or epiblastic, layer of the blastoderm..
Fidget :: Fidget (n.) A general nervous restlessness, manifested by incessant changes of position; dysphoria..
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