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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Mental :: Mental (a.) Of or pertaining to the chin; genian; as, the mental nerve; the mental region..
Infraorbital :: Infraorbital (a.) Below the orbit; as, the infraorbital foramen; the infraorbital nerve..
Plexus :: Plexus (n.) A network of vessels, nerves, or fibers..
Capillament :: Capillament (n.) Any villous or hairy covering; a fine fiber or filament, as of the nerves..
Quintuple-ribbed :: Quintuple-ribbed (a.) The same as Quinquenerved.
Nasopalatine :: Nasopalatine (a.) Connected with both the nose and the palate; as, the nasopalatine or incisor, canal connecting the mouth and the nasal chamber in some animals; the nasopalatine nerve..
Unstring :: Unstring (v. t.) Used also figuratively; as, his nerves were unstrung by fear..
Secretory :: Secretory (a.) Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves..
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..
Vagus :: Vagus (a.) Wandering; -- applied especially to the pneumogastric nerve.
Cerebrifugal :: Cerebrifugal (a.) Applied to those nerve fibers which go from the brain to the spinal cord, and so transfer cerebral impulses (centrifugal impressions) outwards..
Sensor :: Sensor (a.) Sensory; as, the sensor nerves..
Neuropathy :: Neuropathy (n.) An affection of the nervous system or of a nerve.
Rhinencephalon :: Rhinencephalon (n.) The division of the brain in front of the prosencephalon, consisting of the two olfactory lobes from which the olfactory nerves arise..
Hilum :: Hilum (n.) The part of a gland, or similar organ, where the blood vessels and nerves enter; the hilus; as, the hilum of the kidney..
Neurilemma :: Neurilemma (n.) The delicate outer sheath of a nerve fiber; the primitive sheath.
Facial :: Facial (a.) Of or pertaining to the face; as, the facial artery, vein, or nerve..
Catelectrotonus :: Catelectrotonus (n.) The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it..
Sciatic :: Sciatic (a.) Of or pertaining to the hip; in the region of, or affecting, the hip; ischial; ischiatic; as, the sciatic nerve, sciatic pains..
Neurism :: Neurism (n.) Nerve force. See Vital force, under Vital..
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