Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy and zoology, a nerve.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body
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Examples
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To give an idea of this, some phenomena may be mentioned, which by means of the string galvanometer have been investigated by Einthoven himself: the retina current (1908, 1909), the action currents in nervus vagus
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This portion of the nerve is often described as the nervus intermedius.
IX. Neurology. 4e. Composition and Central Connections of the Spinal Nerves 1918
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The word nerve now applied to them is from the Latin nervus, which is traced back to the Sanskrit snavara, meaning a string or cord.
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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Then Miss Kinnian came to see me and she brout me some magizenes to reed, and she lookd kind of nervus and skared.
Flowers for Algernon Keyes, Daniel 1966
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(I'm moderating this one, gosh I hope it goes okay * nervus*.)
AND A JAY-Z SONG WAS ON. AND A JAY-Z SONG WAS ON. AND A JAY-Z SONG WAS ON. karenhealey 2010
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Mai gess wud be, her hazza nervus bowt teh playse, an waz hoping yu cud hide her frum it.
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I about as nervus as da kitteh wit da weird peeps lookin at it!
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July 27, 2008 at 2:05 pm nervus tigger is .. nervus
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